Where does “ຜູ້ຂ້າ” come from?

ຜູ້ຂ້າ (Lao) comes from Lao ຜູ້, from Proto-Southwestern Tai pʰuːᶜ — person.

ຜູ້ຂ້າ (Lao): a first person pronoun employed when addressing a...

Definitions

  1. a first person pronoun employed when addressing a...

Ancestry of “ຜູ້ຂ້າ”, step by step

ຜູ້ຂ້າ traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Lao ຜູ້

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Laoຜູ້person; used with animals to indicate he-, male;...
2Proto-Southwestern Taipʰuːᶜperson

via Lao ຂ້າ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Laoຂ້າslave, servant; I, me; to kill, murder
2Proto-Tai*qaːꟲto kill
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