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
- flowers and leaves; foliage
Ancestry of “hoa lá”, step by step
hoa lá traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Vietnamese là
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vietnamese | là | fine silk; to be; to iron |
| 2 | English | lä | Sixth tone of the diatonic scale |
| 3 | French | là | there; here, present |
| 4 | Italian | là | there |
| 5 | Spanish | la | feminine singular definite article; the |
| 6 | Portuguese | lá | there; used with an adverb phrase to indicate... |
| 7 | German | a | Alternative form of A; Abbreviation of a-Moll;... |
| 8 | German | a-Moll | A-minor |
| 9 | Hungarian | a | the; this; that |
| 10 | French | à | to; on the, to; at |
| 11 | Middle French | a | to; towards; third-person singular present... |
| 12 | Old French | a | to; towards; belonging to |
| 13 | Latin | A | — |
| 14 | Etruscan | 𐌀 | and, also |
| 15 | Ancient Greek | ᾱ̔ | — |
| 16 | Phoenician | 𐤀 | ox; aleph; alef |
| 17 | Egyptian | 𓃾 | — |