llegar
/ʝeˈɡaɾ/ · A1 · verb
to arrive, get
🚪 From Latin plicare, to fold: sailors folded the sails on arriving in port
Latin pl- became Spanish ll-, as in pluvia > lluvia and plenus > lleno, so plicare gave llegar. Folding the sails meant the voyage was over. The same reaching sense covers money or time that reaches far enough: to be enough.