Where does “ola” come from?
ola (Portuguese) comes from Spanish hola, from French holà, from French là, from Italian là, from Spanish la, from Portuguese lá, from German a, from German a-Moll — ox; aleph; alef.
ola (Portuguese): wave
Definitions
- wave
Ancestry of “ola”, step by step
ola traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Spanish hola
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Spanish | hola | hello, hi |
| 2 | French | holà | hey, oi |
| 3 | French | là | there; here, present |
| 4 | Italian | là | there |
| 5 | Spanish | la | feminine singular definite article; the |
| 6 | Portuguese | lá | there; used with an adverb phrase to indicate... |
| 7 | German | a | Alternative form of A; Abbreviation of a-Moll;... |
| 8 | German | a-Moll | A-minor |
| 9 | Hungarian | a | the; this; that |
| 10 | French | à | to; on the, to; at |
| 11 | Middle French | a | to; towards; third-person singular present... |
| 12 | Old French | a | to; towards; belonging to |
| 13 | Latin | A | — |
| 14 | Etruscan | 𐌀 | and, also |
| 15 | Ancient Greek | ᾱ̔ | — |
| 16 | Phoenician | 𐤀 | ox; aleph; alef |
via Spanish ola
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Spanish | ola | wave; sudden appearance of a large amount of... |
| 2 | Latin | undula | wavelet; vocative singular of undula; ablative... |
| 3 | Latin | -ulus | Used to form a diminutive of a noun, indicating... |
| 4 | Proto-Italic | -olos | — |
| 5 | Proto-Italic | -elos | Forms desubstantival and deadjectival diminutive nouns |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | -e-lós | — |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | -lós | Forms agent nouns from verbal roots |