Where does “mác ca” come from?

mác ca (Tày) comes from Tày mác, from Proto-Tai ʰmaːkᴰ — fruit.

mác ca (Tày): fruit from Oroxylum indicum

Definitions

  1. fruit from Oroxylum indicum

Ancestry of “mác ca”, step by step

mác ca traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Tày mác

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tàymácfruit
2Proto-Taiʰmaːkᴰfruit

via Tày cà

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tàycàthatch grass
2Proto-Taikaːᴬcrow
Every word from Proto-Tai ʰmaːkᴰ →Every word from Tày mác →