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hasta

until; up to, as far as; evenindica el límite de un tiempo, lugar o cantidad

Comes from Arabic

حَتَّى

ḥattā

“until”«hasta»

Arabic today says

حَتَّى

ḥattā

And it still does

The article

It came in without the article.

The story

Corominas and the RAE see Arabic ḥattā in Old Spanish fasta/hata (the f- renders the ḥ), perhaps blended with Romance ata; others derive it from Latin alone (ad ista, or faciem + intra), with no Arabic at all.Corominas y la RAE ven en el antiguo fasta/hata el árabe ḥattā (la f- reproduce la ḥ), quizá cruzado con el romance ata; otros lo derivan solo del latín (ad ista, o faciem + intra), sin árabe.

In a sentence

Te espero hasta las ocho.

I'll wait for you until eight.

سَأَنْتَظِرُكَ حَتَّى الثَّامِنَة.

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