Where does “la làng” come from?
la làng (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.
la làng (Vietnamese): to holler; to cry for help
Definitions
- to holler; to cry for help
Ancestry of “la làng”, step by step
la làng 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 | — |
via Vietnamese làng
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vietnamese | làng | village; circles; world |
| 2 | French | flan | baked custard tart; coin die |
| 3 | Old French | flaon | flan |
| 4 | Late Latin | fladonem | — |
| 5 | Latin | fladō | — |
| 6 | Frankish | flaþō | flat-cake; flat cake; thin fried batter cake,... |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | pl̥h₂t- | broad, flat |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | pelh₂- | to approach |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | pel- | to cover, to wrap; skin, hide, cloth; to fold |