Where does “nhất là” come from?
nhất là (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.
nhất là (Vietnamese): Used to emphasize one's following statement over the others: especially; most importantly
Definitions
- Used to emphasize one's following statement over the others: especially; most importantly
Ancestry of “nhất là”, step by step
nhất là 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 | — |