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
2Vietnamese
3Chinese
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 -īnusEvery word from Latin Martīnus