Where does “hoa lá” come from?

hoa lá (Vietnamese) comes from Vietnamese là, from English lä, from French là, from Italian là, from Spanish la, from Portuguese lá, from German a, from German a-Moll.

hoa lá (Vietnamese): flowers and leaves; foliage

Definitions

  1. flowers and leaves; foliage

Ancestry of “hoa lá”, step by step

hoa lá traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Vietnamese

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vietnamesefine silk; to be; to iron
2EnglishSixth tone of the diatonic scale
3Frenchthere; here, present
4Italianthere
5Spanishlafeminine singular definite article; the
6Portuguesethere; used with an adverb phrase to indicate...
7GermanaAlternative form of A; Abbreviation of a-Moll;...
8Germana-MollA-minor
9Hungarianathe; this; that
10Frenchàto; on the, to; at
11Middle Frenchato; towards; third-person singular present...
12Old Frenchato; towards; belonging to
13LatinA
14Etruscan𐌀and, also
15Ancient Greekᾱ̔
16Phoenician𐤀ox; aleph; alef
17Egyptian𓃾

via Vietnamese hoá

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vietnamesehoámerchandise, goods; to turn; -ize; -ise
2Chineseharmonious
3Japanesepeace, harmony, tranquillity, serenity; sum
4Middle Chinese
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