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Where does “bandada” come from?

bandada (Spanish) comes from Catalan banda, from French bande, from French là, from Italian là, from Spanish la, from Portuguese lá, from German a, from German a-Moll — ox; aleph; alef.

bandada (Spanish): flock; swarm; shoal

Definitions

  1. flock; swarm; shoal

Ancestry of “bandada”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Catalanbandaband, sash; side; band, gang
2Frenchbandeband, strip; stripe; strip
3Frenchlàthere; here, present
4Italianlàthere
5Spanishlathe; accusative of ella, ello , and usted ; her,...
6Portugueseláthere; used with an adverb phrase to indicate...
7GermanaAlternative form of A; Abbreviation of a-Moll;...
8Germana-MollA-minor
9Hungarianathe; this; that
10Frenchàto; on the, to; at
11Middle Frenchato; towards; third-person singular present...
12Old Frenchato; towards; belonging to
13LatinA—
14Etruscan𐌀—
15Ancient Greekᾱ̔—
16Phoenician𐤀ox; aleph; alef
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