Etymograph

English

hasta

Hasta comes from Spanish hasta ‘until’, and goes back to Old Spanish fasta.

  1. Old Spanishc. 950–1500fasta1
  2. Spanishc. 1500–presenthasta2‘until’
  3. Englishtodayhasta2

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, Spanish hasta
  2. 2 Wiktionary, English hasta

Lineage

  1. Old Spanishc. 950–1500fastaWiktionary, Spanish hasta
  2. Spanishc. 1500–presenthastaWiktionary, English hasta‘until’
  3. EnglishtodayhastaWiktionary, English hasta

Every English word from Old Spanish fasta

Another origin of hasta

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*ǵʰes-‘hand’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Indo-Iranianc. 2500–1800 BCE*ȷ́ʰástas‘hand’reconstructed
  3. Sanskritc. 1500–500 BCEहस्तhasta‘the hand’
  4. Englishtodayhasta

Another origin of hasta

  1. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*hastā-uncertain
  2. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEhasta‘a spear, lance, pike, carried by soldiers and used for thrusting’
  3. Englishtodayhasta

Today it means

intj goodbye

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “hasta”; the older steps come from the Wiktionary entry for Spanish hasta. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

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