Etymograph

English

onça

Onça comes from Portuguese onça ‘English or American ounce, a unit of mass…’, and goes back to Proto-Indo-European *óynos ‘one’.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*óynos‘one’reconstructed
  2. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEū̆ncia‘unit, ¹⁄₁₂ pound’
  3. Old Galician-Portuguesec. 1100–1500onça
  4. Portuguesec. 1500–presentsame form‘English or American ounce, a unit of mass equal to 28.35 g’
  5. Englishtodaysame form

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*óynos‘one’reconstructed
  2. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEū̆ncia‘unit, ¹⁄₁₂ pound’
  3. Old Galician-Portuguesec. 1100–1500onça
  4. Portuguesec. 1500–presentsame form‘English or American ounce, a unit of mass equal to 28.35 g’
  5. Englishtodaysame form

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *óynos ‘one’

unity, nullity, 1 more

through Latin ū̆ncia ‘unit, ¹⁄₁₂ pound’

inch, ounce, 4 more

Today it means

noun A traditional Portuguese unit of mass, usually equivalent to 28.7 g.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *óynos / onça

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