Where does “tá” come from?
tá (Spanish) comes from Spanish está, from Latin ista, from Latin iste, from Latin hāc, from Latin hīc, from Latin heic, from Latin hic, from Proto-Italic hek(e) — resin.
tá (Spanish): okay
Definitions
- okay
Ancestry of “tá”, step by step
tá traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Spanish está
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Spanish | está | is |
| 2 | Latin | ista | nominative feminine singular of iste; nominative... |
| 3 | Latin | iste | that near you; those in the plural |
| 4 | Latin | hāc | this way; these; in this place (or way) |
| 5 | Latin | hīc | this; these in the plural |
| 6 | Latin | heic | — |
| 7 | Latin | hic | this; these in the plural |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | hek(e) | — |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | gʰi-ḱe | this, here |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 11 | Middle English | kyt | — |
| 12 | German | kitt | putty certain kinds of cement used for fixing e.g. window panes |
| 13 | Old High German | kuti | — |
| 14 | Proto-West Germanic | kwidu | gum, resin |
| 15 | Proto-Germanic | kweduz | resin |
via Spanish puta
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Spanish | puta | feminine singular of puto; whore, slut,... |
| 2 | Old Spanish | puta | whore |
| 3 | Vulgar Latin | putta | prostitute |
| 4 | Latin | puta | second-person singular present active imperative... |
| 5 | Latin | puto | I clean, cleanse; I trim, prune, lop; I arrange,... |
| 6 | Latin | putus | pure; a boy |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | puHtós | pure, clean |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | pewH- | to be clean, pure |