Where does “sonar” come from?
sonar (Venetian) comes from Latin sonare, from Latin sono, from Latin sonus, from Latin sonō, from Proto-Italic *swonaō.
sonar (Venetian): to play, sound
Ancestry of “sonar”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Latin | sonare | present active infinitive of sonō; second-person... |
| 2 | Latin | sono | dative singular of sonus; ablative singular of... |
| 3 | Latin | sonus | sound, noise; pitch; speech; tone, character,... |
| 4 | Latin | sonō | — |
| 5 | Proto-Italic | *swonaō | — |