Where does “明仔日” come from?

明仔日 (Chinese) comes from Chinese 日, from Sino-Tibetan *ku-ni(k).

明仔日 (Chinese): tomorrow

Definitions

  1. tomorrow

Ancestry of “明仔日”, step by step

明仔日 traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Chinese 日

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Chinese日the sun; day
2Sino-Tibetan*ku-ni(k)—

via Chinese 明旦

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Chinese明旦tomorrow
Every word from Sino-Tibetan *ku-ni(k) →Every word from Chinese 日 →