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Saturday, September 27, 2014

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ventana, noun
window

La ventana is the basic word for a window. Notice how you use por in the following examples:

Miraba por la ventana.
He was looking out of the window.

Entró por la ventana.
It came in through the window.

Ventana derives from the Latin word for wind, ventus. English window has a similar connection with the wind. It derives from the Scandinavian word vindauga, a combination of vindr ‘wind’ and auga ‘eye’. So a window is, literally, the eye through which the wind enters.

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