Where does “ចំណងឈ្នាប់” come from?

ចំណងឈ្នាប់ (Khmer) comes from Khmer ចំណង, from Khmer ចង, from Proto-Turkic juŋ, from Chinese 羊, from Translingual ¥, from English Y, from English yuri, from Japanese 百合.

ចំណងឈ្នាប់ (Khmer): conjunction

Definitions

  1. conjunction

Ancestry of “ចំណងឈ្នាប់”, step by step

ចំណងឈ្នាប់ traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Khmer ចំណង

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Khmerចំណងknot; bond, link, tie; ligature
2Khmerចងto tie
3Proto-Turkicjuŋ—
4Chinese羊sheep, goat, antelope
5Translingual¥yen
6EnglishYA figure or mark in the shape of the letter Y; A...
7EnglishyuriA narrative or visual work featuring a romance or...
8Japanese百合lily
9Japanese連用形an inflectional category: the continuative or...
10Japanese見るto see, to watch, to observe, to look at...
11Japanese夢a dream; a vision; leaving reality to the state...
12Old Japanese夢a dream
13Japanese目an order in biology: smaller than a class, bigger...
14Middle Chinese目—

via Khmer ឈ្នាប់

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Khmerឈ្នាប់connection, conjunction
2Khmerជាប់to link
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