köken: From Middle French and Old French ça, from Vulgar Latin *ecce hāc. Compare Portuguese cá, Spanish acá. The grave accent now serves to distinguish it from ça (“that”). However, çà was already widely spelt thus before ça became common in writing, and in fact the accent was formerly also found for the latter. Thus perhaps by analogy with là. Compare also jà (where the accent has no clear purpose).
köken: Borrowed from Arabic أَوَّل (ʔawwal, “first; in Gulf dialects it means "before"”). Compare Turkish evvel, Azerbaijani əvvəl and Uyghur ئاۋۋال (awwal).
köken: From Proto-Turkic *bērü. Cognate with Southern Altai бери (beri), Turkish beri, Old Turkic 𐰋𐰃𐰼𐰏𐰼𐰇 (b²ir²gr²ü /bérgerü, birigerü/, “since, towards here, southward”).
köken: Connected with धार (dhār, “flow, stream”), which means "direction" in Old Hindi or Braj Bhasha. For the i- prefix, compare इस (is, “this”) and इतना (itnā, “this much”).
köken: From Vulgar Latin *ad hīcce (“to here”), from Latin hīc (“here”), from heic, from earlier forms of hic (“this”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰi-ḱe (“this, here”). Compare Italian ci, Sicilian ci, Spanish aquí, Portuguese aqui, Aromanian atsia.
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *de Proto-Balto-Slavic *da Proto-Slavic *do Old Polish do Proto-Indo-European *só Proto-Balto-Slavic *tas Proto-Slavic *tъ Proto-Slavic *tǫda Old Polish tąd univ. Old Polish dotąd Polish dotąd Inherited from Old Polish dotąd. By surface analysis, univerbation of do + tędy. Compare Kashubian dotąd.