Where does “phải” come from?

phải (Vietnamese) comes from Chinese 派, from English Pi, from Ancient Greek πῖ, from Ancient Greek πεῖ, from Proto-Semitic pay- — the mouth.

phải (Vietnamese): right; correct; obverse

Definitions

  1. right; correct; obverse

Ancestry of “phải”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Chinese派—
2EnglishPiThe sixteenth letter of the Classical and Modern Greek alphabets and the seventeenth in Old Greek
3Ancient GreekπῖAlternative form of πεῖ
4Ancient Greekπεῖpi, the name for the sixteenth letter Π, π of the...
5Proto-Semiticpay-the mouth

Words derived from “phải”

Every word from Proto-Semitic pay- →Every word from Ancient Greek πεῖ →Every word from Ancient Greek πῖ →