Afrikaans op | ||
Albanian mbi | ||
Amharic ላይ | ||
Arabic على | ||
Armenian վրա | ||
Assamese onto | ||
Aymara ukatsti | ||
Azerbaijani üzərinə | ||
Bambara kan | ||
Basque gainean | ||
Belarusian на | ||
Bengali উপর | ||
Bhojpuri पर बा | ||
Bosnian na | ||
Bulgarian върху | ||
Catalan a | ||
Cebuano ngadto sa | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 到 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 到 | ||
Corsican nantu | ||
Croatian na | ||
Czech na | ||
Danish på | ||
Dhivehi މައްޗަށް | ||
Dogri पर | ||
Dutch op | ||
English onto | ||
Esperanto sur | ||
Estonian peale | ||
Ewe ɖe edzi | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) papunta sa | ||
Finnish päälle | ||
French sur | ||
Frisian onto | ||
Galician en | ||
Georgian გადატანა | ||
German auf zu | ||
Greek επάνω σε | ||
Guarani ári | ||
Gujarati પર | ||
Haitian Creole sou | ||
Hausa uwa | ||
Hawaiian ma luna o | ||
Hebrew עַל גַבֵּי | ||
Hindi पर | ||
Hmong rua | ||
Hungarian -ra | ||
Icelandic inn á | ||
Igbo n'elu | ||
Ilocano onto | ||
Indonesian ke | ||
Irish isteach | ||
Italian su | ||
Japanese に | ||
Javanese menyang | ||
Kannada ಮೇಲೆ | ||
Kazakh үстінде | ||
Khmer លើ | ||
Kinyarwanda kuri | ||
Konkani onto | ||
Korean 위에 | ||
Krio onto | ||
Kurdish ser | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) لەسەر | ||
Kyrgyz көздөй | ||
Lao ໃສ່ | ||
Latin onto | ||
Latvian uz | ||
Lingala likolo ya | ||
Lithuanian ant | ||
Luganda ku | ||
Luxembourgish op | ||
Macedonian кон | ||
Maithili पर | ||
Malagasy teo | ||
Malay ke | ||
Malayalam എന്നതിലേക്ക് | ||
Maltese fuq | ||
Maori ki runga | ||
Marathi वर | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) onto | ||
Mizo onto a ni | ||
Mongolian дээр | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) ပေါ်သို့ | ||
Nepali मा | ||
Norwegian videre til | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) kulowa | ||
Odia (Oriya) ଉପରେ | ||
Oromo irratti | ||
Pashto پر | ||
Persian به سوی | ||
Polish na | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) para | ||
Punjabi ਉੱਤੇ | ||
Quechua onto | ||
Romanian pe | ||
Russian на | ||
Samoan i luga | ||
Sanskrit onto इति | ||
Scots Gaelic air adhart | ||
Sepedi godimo ga | ||
Serbian на | ||
Sesotho kena | ||
Shona kupinda | ||
Sindhi تي | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) මතට | ||
Slovak na | ||
Slovenian na | ||
Somali dul | ||
Spanish sobre | ||
Sundanese kana | ||
Swahili kuingia | ||
Swedish till | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) papunta sa | ||
Tajik биронанд | ||
Tamil மீது | ||
Tatar өстенә | ||
Telugu పైకి | ||
Thai ไปยัง | ||
Tigrinya ኣብ ልዕሊኡ | ||
Tsonga ehenhla ka | ||
Turkish üstüne | ||
Turkmen üstüne | ||
Twi (Akan) onto | ||
Ukrainian на | ||
Urdu پر | ||
Uyghur ئۈستىدە | ||
Uzbek ustiga | ||
Vietnamese trên | ||
Welsh ymlaen | ||
Xhosa ungene | ||
Yiddish אַנטו | ||
Yoruba pẹlẹpẹlẹ | ||
Zulu ungene |
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | The Afrikaans word "op" can also mean "open" or "upwards". |
| Albanian | The word "mbi" in Albanian is derived from the Proto-Albanian word *mbhi, meaning "above". |
| Amharic | "Lay": in addition to meaning "onto", can mean "over" as in "he's standing over a cliff." |
| Arabic | The word "على" can also mean "over," "above," or "during" depending on the context. |
| Armenian | Վրա (vra) derives from the Proto-Indo-European root *uper, meaning 'on, over, above', and is related to the Latin super and the English over. |
| Azerbaijani | The word "üzərinə" also means "against" or "in relation to" in Azerbaijani. |
| Basque | The word "gainean" in Basque, besides meaning "onto", also means "on top of" or "above". |
| Belarusian | In some contexts, "на" can also mean "about" or "approximately." |
| Bengali | "উপর" can also mean "over" or "above" in English |
| Bosnian | Bosnian word "na" can also mean "at" or "by" and is a shortened form of "nad" or "nada" meaning "on" or "above". |
| Bulgarian | As a preposition, "върху" can also mean "about" or "on the topic of." |
| Catalan | In Catalan, the word "a" can also mean "to", "at", or "in". |
| Cebuano | In Cebuano, "ngadto sa" can also mean "to become" or "to go to" when used in the context of a place or a state of being. |
| Chinese (Simplified) | The character "到" is composed of the radicals "彳" (walking) and "止" (stop), indicating movement towards a destination. |
| Chinese (Traditional) | In the sense of "to reach" or "to arrive", "到" is composed of the two radicals "行" (to walk) and "止" (to stop), indicating the end point of a journey. |
| Corsican | Corsican "nantu" comes from the preposition "inantu" which carries multiple meanings including "on". |
| Croatian | The word "na" also means "at" or "in" and can indicate direction, location, or time. |
| Czech | The word "na" can also mean "in", "at", "on", or "to" and is used in many compound words. |
| Danish | The word "på" can also mean "about" or "of" in Danish, and it comes from the Old Norse word "á". |
| Dutch | The Dutch word "op" is also used in the sense of "open"} |
| Esperanto | The Esperanto word "sur" originally meant "above" or "over" in Volapük, a constructed language created by Johann Martin Schleyer in 1879. |
| Estonian | The word "peale" also means "after" and is cognate with the Finnish word "pääle" and Russian word "после". |
| Finnish | "Päälle" also means "on" or "turned on" in Finnish. |
| French | The French word "sur" also means "on, above, over, upon" |
| Frisian | In Frisian, "onto" can also mean "on" or "upon". |
| Galician | En Galician, "en" can also mean "in", "within", or "during". |
| German | The phrase 'auf zu' is derived from the combination of the preposition 'auf' ('on', 'to') and the directional particle 'zu' ('toward', 'to'), indicating movement or direction toward an object or place. |
| Greek | The Greek phrase "επάνω σε" can also mean "above", "on top of", or "upon" depending on the context. |
| Gujarati | The Gujarati word 'પર' ('onto') can also be used to denote purpose or condition. |
| Haitian Creole | The word "sou" in Haitian Creole also means "towards", "in the direction of", and "facing towards". |
| Hausa | The word "uwa" in Hausa can also mean "over" or "above" |
| Hawaiian | Ma is a preposition meaning on, upon or towards and Luna is a preposition meaning under, below or near. |
| Hebrew | The word "עַל גַבֵּי" literally means "on the back of", from the root "גב" (back). |
| Hindi | The word "पर" in Hindi can mean "in" or "on" depending on the context. |
| Hmong | The Hmong word "rua" also means "to" or "towards". |
| Hungarian | The word "-ra" is the suffix version of the noun "hely" meaning "place", and can also be used to mean "to" or "for". |
| Icelandic | The word 'inn á' can also be translated as 'in' or 'into', depending on context. |
| Igbo | The Igbo word "n'elu" also means "heaven" or "sky". |
| Indonesian | Ke can also mean 'to' (a place) or 'towards' a destination or goal. |
| Irish | The word 'isteach' also means 'inside' or 'into' |
| Italian | The word "su" also means "above" or "on top of" in Italian. |
| Japanese | The kanji for に can also mean "in" and "towards." |
| Javanese | The Javanese word "menyang" also has an alternate meaning of "through" or "into" |
| Kannada | The word "ಮೇಲೆ" also means "above" or "on top of" in Kannada. |
| Kazakh | The word "үстінде" in Kazakh can also mean "on (a surface)", "above", or "over". |
| Khmer | The word "លើ" can also mean "about", "on", "over", and "above" in Khmer. |
| Korean | The Korean word '위에' can also mean 'upon' or 'over' when describing the location of something. |
| Kurdish | The word "ser" also means "self" or "oneself" in Kurdish. |
| Kyrgyz | The word "көздөй" can also mean "towards" or "in the direction of" in Kyrgyz. |
| Lao | " ใส่ (sày) originates from Thai ใส่ (sài) which has a range of meanings including: to wear, to put on, to install, to add, to include, to insert, to mount, to load, to charge, to fill, to fit, to put, to inject, to apply, to operate, to equip, to make." |
| Latin | The word "onto" in Latin derives from the Greek word "onta", meaning "being" or "things that are". |
| Latvian | The word “uz” is also used to indicate the approximate location of an object or the direction of movement. |
| Lithuanian | In Lithuanian, the word "ant" not only means "onto" but also has the archaic meaning of "against" or "opposite to". |
| Luxembourgish | The word 'op' can also mean 'open' in Luxembourgish. |
| Macedonian | "Кон" can also mean "towards", "against", or "in front of" in Macedonian. |
| Malagasy | The word "teo" in Malagasy can also mean "for" or "with". |
| Malay | The word 'ke' in Malay can also mean 'towards' or 'to'. |
| Maltese | The Maltese word "fuq" also means "over", "above", "on top of", or "upon". |
| Maori | As an imperative, ki runga means 'ascend', and refers to an elevated position. |
| Marathi | "वर" can also mean "on" or "upon", and is cognate with the Hindi word "par". |
| Mongolian | The word 'дээр', which means 'onto', is also used to mean 'above', 'on', or 'in' in some contexts. |
| Nepali | The word 'मा' is also used in Nepali with the meaning 'in' or 'into' as in 'घरमा' (ghar-mā) meaning 'in the house'. |
| Norwegian | The Norwegian word "videre til" also means "next" in English, but specifically in the context of navigation or a series of actions. |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | The word "kulowa" in Nyanja can also mean "upon" or "in respect to". |
| Pashto | The word "پر" in Pashto also means "up to" or "as far as". |
| Persian | The Persian word "به سوی" ("onto") can also be used to indicate direction or purpose. |
| Polish | In early Polish, "na" could also mean "against" or "in". |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | In Portuguese, "para" can also mean "for" (purpose, destination), "by" (means, agent), or "in order to". |
| Punjabi | The word "ਉੱਤੇ" also suggests the idea of "upon" or "over", indicating a higher position or location. |
| Romanian | The word "pe" in Romanian also means "on" or "upon" and is derived from the Latin preposition "per". |
| Russian | The Russian word "на" can also mean "on", "at", "in", or "per". |
| Samoan | The word 'i luga' can also be translated as 'on' or 'at'. |
| Scots Gaelic | The Scots Gaelic phrase "air adhart" has an alternate meaning of "openly or publicly" |
| Serbian | "На" also means 'at' or 'in' in Serbian, depending on context. |
| Sesotho | The word "kena" can also mean "to give" or "to place" in Sesotho. |
| Shona | The word "kupinda" in Shona also means "to cross" or "to go over". |
| Sindhi | Sindhi "تي" also means "so" and "in order to". |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | "මතට" (matata) in Sinhala can also mean "upon", "over", "above", or "on top of". |
| Slovak | The word "na" in Slovak also means "upon", "to", or "in" when a movement is implied. |
| Slovenian | The word "na" in Slovenian also means "for" or "on" something (e.g. "na vrhu" = "on the top"). |
| Somali | The word "dul" in Somali can also mean "down" or "toward". |
| Spanish | "Sobre" also means "envelope" or "about" in Spanish. |
| Sundanese | In Sundanese, "kana" also signifies a container that holds water |
| Swahili | The Swahili word "kuingia" can also mean "to enter" or "to join." |
| Swedish | The Swedish word "till" can also mean "until" or "to" in English. |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | The term "papunta sa" also carries the connotation of "towards" or "in the direction of" a particular location or destination |
| Tajik | This Tajik word derives from two Persian words meaning “on” and “what” and can also mean “to” in the case of movement. |
| Tamil | The word "மீது" can also mean "on top of", "above", or "over". |
| Telugu | The word "పైకి" can also mean "upwards" or "on top of". |
| Thai | The word "ไปยัง" also means "to" and "until" when used with verbs of motion. |
| Turkish | In Turkish, "üstüne" also carries the meanings of "in addition", "moreover" and "on the top of" |
| Ukrainian | The preposition "на" can also mean "about" or "on" in a temporal sense. |
| Urdu | The word "پر" in Urdu, meaning "onto," evolved from the Sanskrit word "पर्यत" (paryata), meaning "along or around". |
| Uzbek | The word “ustiga” in Uzbek is a derivative of the word “üst”, meaning “up” or “on top”. |
| Vietnamese | The word "trên" derives from "trên trời," meaning "the sky," and has the connotation of moving to a higher position. |
| Welsh | The Middle Welsh form of ymlaen, ymlan (‘before’; ‘in the presence of’), is attested in the pre-Old-Welsh *mlānos (“on’; of places) |
| Xhosa | Ungena in Xhosa also has the alternate meaning of 'to put on'. |
| Yiddish | The Yiddish word "אַנטו" ("onto") shares its origin with the German preposition "auf" and the Slavic preposition "na". |
| Zulu | Although "ungene" means "onto" in Zulu, it is also used as the imperative form of the verb "to give". |
| English | The word "onto" is derived from the Old English "on to," meaning "on the top of" or "in addition to." |