Where does “các” come from?
các (Vietnamese) comes from French carte, from Latin charta, from French cartel, from Italian cartello, from Italian carta, from Latin carta, from Ancient Greek χάρτης, from Ancient Greek χαράσσω — to yearn for; to enclose; bowels, intestines.
các (Vietnamese): Plural marker; cell phone's card; to pay the...
Definitions
- Plural marker; cell phone's card; to pay the...
Ancestry of “các”, step by step
các traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.
via French carte
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | carte | card; chart; map; menu |
| 2 | Latin | charta | papyrus, paper; poem, a writing; map |
| 3 | French | cartel | a cartel |
| 4 | Italian | cartello | sign, notice, placard, signboard; signpost, road... |
| 5 | Italian | carta | paper; map; menu |
| 6 | Latin | carta | papyrus; letter etc |
| 7 | Ancient Greek | χάρτης | sheet of paper, paper; book |
| 8 | Ancient Greek | χαράσσω | to sharpen; to engrave, carve, write, draw, stamp |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | ǵʰer- | to yearn for; to enclose; bowels, intestines |
via German Karl
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | German | Karl | — |
| 2 | German | -chen | nowadays the most common suffix to create a... |
| 3 | Middle High German | -echen | — |
via Proto-Mon-Khmer kʔaak
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Proto-Mon-Khmer | kʔaak | crow; to caw |