Where does “porqué” come from?
porqué (Spanish) comes from Spanish por qué, from Spanish por, from Old Spanish por, from Vulgar Latin por, from Latin prō, from Latin ratus, from Latin rēōr, from Proto-Italic rēōr — to fit, to fix, to put together.
porqué (Spanish): a reason
Ancestry of “porqué”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Spanish | por qué | why, for what reason |
| 2 | Spanish | por | by; for; through, out, via |
| 3 | Old Spanish | por | — |
| 4 | Vulgar Latin | por | for |
| 5 | Latin | prō | — |
| 6 | Latin | ratus | considered, having been considered; established,... |
| 7 | Latin | rēōr | — |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | rēōr | to reckon, to calculate; to think, to deem, to... |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | h₂reh₁- | to think, reason; to arrange |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | h₂er- | to fit, to fix, to put together |