Where does “khác phái” come from?
khác phái (Vietnamese) comes from Vietnamese phải, from Chinese 派, from English Pi, from Ancient Greek πῖ, from Ancient Greek πεῖ, from Proto-Semitic pay- — the mouth.
khác phái (Vietnamese): of the opposite gender or sex
Definitions
- of the opposite gender or sex
Ancestry of “khác phái”, step by step
khác phái traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Vietnamese phải
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vietnamese | phải | right; correct; obverse |
| 2 | Chinese | 派 | — |
| 3 | English | Pi | The sixteenth letter of the Classical and Modern Greek alphabets and the seventeenth in Old Greek |
| 4 | Ancient Greek | πῖ | Alternative form of πεῖ |
| 5 | Ancient Greek | πεῖ | pi, the name for the sixteenth letter Π, π of the... |
| 6 | Proto-Semitic | pay- | the mouth |
via Vietnamese khác
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vietnamese | khác | different, other |