Where does “soñar” come from?
soñar (Spanish) comes from Latin somniō, from Latin somnium, from Latin somnus, from Proto-Italic swepnos, from Proto-Indo-European swépnos, from Proto-Indo-European swopnos, from Proto-Indo-European swep- — to sleep.
soñar (Spanish): to dream
Definitions
- to dream
Ancestry of “soñar”, step by step
soñar traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.
via Latin somniō
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Latin | somniō | to dream |
| 2 | Latin | somnium | dream, vision; fantasy, daydream |
| 3 | Latin | somnus | sleep; drowsiness, slumber sloth, idleness; death |
| 4 | Proto-Italic | swepnos | — |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | swépnos | sleep, slumber |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | swopnos | dream |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | swep- | to sleep |
via Old Spanish sonar
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Old Spanish | sonar | — |
| 2 | Latin | sonare | present active infinitive of sonō; second-person... |
| 3 | Latin | sono | dative singular of sonus; ablative singular of... |
| 4 | Latin | sonus | sound, noise; pitch; speech; tone, character,... |
| 5 | Latin | sonō | to sound, resound, make a sound or noise (and various sounds in-context) |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | *swonaō | to sound, resound |
via English SONAR
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | SONAR | Acronym of sound navigation and ranging |