Where does “chāikāh” come from?

chāikāh (Khiamniungan Naga) comes from Proto-Iranian -kah, from Proto-Austronesian ka — if.

chāikāh (Khiamniungan Naga): debit A sum of money taken out of a bank account. Thus called, because in bank's bookkeeping a cash withdrawal diminishes the amount of money held on the account, i.e. bank's debt to the customer

Definitions

  1. debit A sum of money taken out of a bank account. Thus called, because in bank's bookkeeping a cash withdrawal diminishes the amount of money held on the account, i.e. bank's debt to the customer

Ancestry of “chāikāh”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Iranian-kah
2Proto-Austronesiankaif
Every word from Proto-Austronesian ka