Where does “nả đây” come from?

nả đây (Tày) comes from Vietnamese đây, from Proto-Tai ɗɤjᴬ — good.

nả đây (Tày): kind-hearted, good-natured

Definitions

  1. kind-hearted, good-natured

Ancestry of “nả đây”, step by step

nả đây traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Vietnamese đây

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vietnameseđâythis; here
2Proto-Taiɗɤjᴬgood

via Tày nả

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tàynảcrossbow
2Proto-Tainaːᴬpaddy field
Every word from Proto-Tai ɗɤjᴬ →Every word from Vietnamese đây →