Asturian

Verb

llegar

1. to arrive

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin legāre, present active infinitive of legō.

Verb

llegar ‎(first-person singular present llego, past participle llegat)

1. To hand down

Conjugation

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin plicāre, present active infinitive of plicō ‎(“I fold”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pleḱ- ‎(“to plait, to weave”). The semantic shift over time from "to fold" is also found in some other Romance cognates, and may be linked to the idea of folding sails when arriving at a port, especially in Iberian Romance where naval tradition was strong. Compare Portuguese chegar; however cf. also Romanian pleca ‎(“to leave”), with the opposite meaning, possibly because there the word was associated with folding up tents and leaving. See also the Spanish doublet plegar ‎(“to fold”). Another theory instead derives llegar from a Vulgar Latin plicāre as a regressive derivation from Classical Latin applicāre ‎(“apply, add, attach, join to”)^[1].

Verb

llegar ‎(first-person singular present llego, first-person singular preterite llegué, past participle llegado)

1. to arrive, get (to)

Conjugation

• Rule: g becomes a gu before e.

Antonyms

• salir, partir

Related terms

• llegada
• llegado
• plegar

References

1. ↑ https://www.scribd.com/document/158436236/Diccionario-Critico-Etimologico-castellano-G-MA-Corominas-Joan-pdf