Where does “ahí na' ma'” come from?
ahí na' ma' (Spanish) comes from Spanish ahí, from Vulgar Latin ad ibi, from Latin Ad, from Latin illic, from Latin ille, from Latin olle, from Proto-Italic *olnos.
ahí na' ma' (Spanish): right on!
Ancestry of “ahí na' ma'”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Spanish | ahí | there; that |
| 2 | Vulgar Latin | ad ibi | to/at there |
| 3 | Latin | Ad | — |
| 4 | Latin | illic | he, she, it, yonder, that, overthere; in that... |
| 5 | Latin | ille | that; those; "; demonstrative pronoun "; that... |
| 6 | Latin | olle | Archaic form of ille |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | *olnos | — |