Where does “hēushāi” come from?

hēushāi (Khiamniungan Naga) comes from Khiamniungan Naga hēu — a rivera large and often winding stream which drains a land mass, carrying water down from higher areas to a lower point, oftentimes ending in another body of water, such as an ocean or in an inland sea.

hēushāi (Khiamniungan Naga): riverbank

Definitions

  1. riverbank

Ancestry of “hēushāi”, step by step

hēushāi traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Khiamniungan Naga hēu

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Khiamniungan Nagahēua rivera large and often winding stream which drains a land mass, carrying water down from higher areas to a lower point, oftentimes ending in another body of water, such as an ocean or in an inland sea

via Khiamniungan Naga shāi

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Khiamniungan Nagashāiintestine
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