Where does “người lạ mặt” come from?
người lạ mặt (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.
người lạ mặt (Vietnamese): stranger
Ancestry of “người lạ mặt”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 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 | the; accusative of ella, ello , and usted ; her,... |
| 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 | — |
| 15 | Ancient Greek | ᾱ̔ | — |
| 16 | Phoenician | 𐤀 | ox; aleph; alef |
| 17 | Egyptian | 𓃾 | — |