Where does “hashtag” come from?
hashtag (Spanish) comes from English hashtag, from English hash tag, from English hash, from French hacher, from Middle French hacher, from Old French hacher, from Old French hache, from Vulgar Latin *happia — to dig; to strike, to beat.
hashtag (Spanish): hashtag
Ancestry of “hashtag”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | English | hashtag | A metadata tag, signaled by a preceding hash sign... |
| 2 | English | hash tag | — |
| 3 | English | hash | Food, especially meat and potatoes, chopped and... |
| 4 | French | hacher | to chop up, mince; to split with an axe; to cut... |
| 5 | Middle French | hacher | to chop up, mince |
| 6 | Old French | hacher | to chop up, mince |
| 7 | Old French | hache | axe |
| 8 | Vulgar Latin | *happia | — |
| 9 | Frankish | happja | axe, hatchet |
| 10 | Proto-Germanic | *hapjǭ | — |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | kop- | to dig; to strike, to beat |