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

Definitions

  1. stranger

Ancestry of “người lạ mặt”, step by step

người lạ mặt traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.

via Vietnamese là

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vietnameselàfine silk; to be; to iron
2EnglishläSixth tone of the diatonic scale
3Frenchlàthere; here, present
4Italianlàthere
5Spanishlafeminine singular definite article; the
6Portugueseláthere; 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 Người

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1VietnameseNgườiYou/Thou/Thee, Jesus Christ; You/Thou/Thee, my...
2Proto-Vieticŋaːj—
3Proto-Mon-Khmer(m)ŋaajperson, human being; human being; person

via Vietnamese mặt

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vietnamesemặtface; aspect; dimension; right
2Middle Vietnamese𩈘face
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