Where does “isto” come from?
isto (Portuguese) comes from Old Portuguese isto, from Latin istud, from Latin iste, from Latin hāc, from Latin hīc, from Latin heic, from Latin hic, from Proto-Italic hek(e) — resin.
isto (Portuguese): this; this sentence, this word, this dictum;...
Definitions
- this; this sentence, this word, this dictum;...
Ancestry of “isto”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Old Portuguese | isto | — |
| 2 | Latin | istud | nominative neuter singular of iste; accusative... |
| 3 | Latin | iste | that ; those; that one ; that ; those ones ;... |
| 4 | Latin | hāc | — |
| 5 | Latin | hīc | — |
| 6 | Latin | heic | — |
| 7 | Latin | hic | this; these; this one; this ; these ones ; these... |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | hek(e) | — |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | gʰi-ḱe | this, here |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 11 | Middle English | kyt | — |
| 12 | German | kitt | — |
| 13 | Old High German | kuti | — |
| 14 | Proto-West Germanic | kwidu | gum, resin |
| 15 | Proto-Germanic | kweduz | resin |