Where does “xương lá mía” come from?

xương lá mía (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.

xương lá mía (Vietnamese): vomer

Definitions

  1. vomer

Ancestry of “xương lá mía”, step by step

xương lá mía 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 mía

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vietnamesemíasugar cane
2Proto-Vietick-mɛːʔsugar cane
3Proto-Mon-Khmerklmiəʔsugar cane

via Vietnamese xương

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vietnamesexươngbone
2Proto-Vietic*ɟaːŋ//*tʃɨəŋ—
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