Where does “ma nuầy” come from?

ma nuầy (Tày) comes from Tày ma, from Vietnamese Mã, from Chinese 碼, from English Mark, from German mark, from Latin Mārcus, from Latin Martīnus, from Latin -īnus — adjectival suffix.

ma nuầy (Tày): wolf

Definitions

  1. wolf

Ancestry of “ma nuầy”, step by step

ma nuầy traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Tày ma

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tàymadog
2VietnameseMã—
3Chinese碼—
4EnglishMarkAbbreviation of Markarian
5Germanmarkmark any of various European monetary units
6LatinMārcus—
7LatinMartīnus—
8Latin-īnusof or pertaining to; -ine
9Proto-Italic-īnosof/belonging to
10Proto-Indo-European-iHnosCreates adjectives of materials
11Proto-Indo-European-no-adjectival suffix

via Tày nuầy

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tàynuầy—
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -no- →Every word from Latin -īnus →Every word from Latin Martīnus →