Where does “chữ khải” come from?
chữ khải (Vietnamese) comes from Vietnamese khái, from Chinese 開, from English K, from English kilo-, from French kilo-, from Ancient Greek χίλιοι, from Proto-Hellenic *kʰehliyoi, from Proto-Indo-European ǵʰéslom — together, one.
chữ khải (Vietnamese): regular script
Definitions
- regular script
Ancestry of “chữ khải”, step by step
chữ khải traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Vietnamese khái
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vietnamese | khái | a tiger |
| 2 | Chinese | 開 | — |
| 3 | English | K | The ordinal number eleventh, derived from this... |
| 4 | English | kilo- | API; In the International System of Units and... |
| 5 | French | kilo- | kilo |
| 6 | Ancient Greek | χίλιοι | thousand |
| 7 | Proto-Hellenic | *kʰehliyoi | thousand |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | ǵʰéslom | thousand |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | sm̥- | one; with, together |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | sem- | together, one |