Where does “сонет” come from?
сонет (Serbo-Croatian) comes from Italian sonetto, from Old Occitan sonet, from Old Occitan son, from Latin sonus, from Latin sonō, from Proto-Italic *swonaō.
сонет (Serbo-Croatian): sonnet
Ancestry of “сонет”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Italian | sonetto | sonnet; first-person singular present indicative... |
| 2 | Old Occitan | sonet | a song |
| 3 | Old Occitan | son | song, sound |
| 4 | Latin | sonus | sound, noise; pitch; speech; tone, character,... |
| 5 | Latin | sonō | — |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | *swonaō | — |