Where does “ora” come from?
ora (Spanish) comes from Spanish ahora, from Swedish å-, from Swedish å, from Swedish och, from Old Swedish ock, from Old Norse ok, from Old Norse svá, from Proto-Germanic swa — self (reflexive pronoun).
ora (Spanish): now (something), now something else; sometimes something, sometimes something else; at times something, at times something else used to introduce opposing ideas
Definitions
- now (something), now something else; sometimes something, sometimes something else; at times something, at times something else used to introduce opposing ideas
Ancestry of “ora”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Spanish | ahora | now |
| 2 | Swedish | å- | on |
| 3 | Swedish | å | a river, a creek, a big stream; on |
| 4 | Swedish | och | and; used to connect two homogeneous words or... |
| 5 | Old Swedish | ock | — |
| 6 | Old Norse | ok | and; also, too; yoke |
| 7 | Old Norse | svá | so |
| 8 | Proto-Germanic | swa | so, thus, in this manner |
| 9 | Proto-Germanic | swē | like, similar to; just like, in the same manner... |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | swē | self (reflexive pronoun) |