Etymology

atajo

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Today it means: A train of mules or horses. Full definition →

Spanish atajo ← Latin ad- ← Proto-Italic *ad-
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*h₂éd
  2. Proto-Italic*ad
  3. Proto-Italic*ad-
  4. Latinad-
  5. Spanisha-
  6. Spanishtajar
  7. Spanishatajardeverb.
  8. Spanishatajo
  9. English todayatajo

Borrowed from Spanish atajo.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.