Where does “nalga” come from?
nalga (Spanish) comes from Asturian nalga, from Vulgar Latin *natica, from Latin natis, from Proto-Indo-European not- — rear, buttock.
nalga (Spanish): buttock
Ancestry of “nalga”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Asturian | nalga | buttock |
| 2 | Vulgar Latin | *natica | — |
| 3 | Latin | natis | rump, buttocks; dative masculine plural of nātus;... |
| 4 | Proto-Indo-European | not- | rear, buttock |
Words derived from “nalga”