Where does “xanh lá cây” come from?
xanh lá cây (Vietnamese) comes from Vietnamese lá cây, from Vietnamese là, from English lä, from French là, from Italian là, from Spanish la, from Portuguese lá, from German a — ox; aleph; alef.
xanh lá cây (Vietnamese): green as opposed to blue
Definitions
- green as opposed to blue
Ancestry of “xanh lá cây”, step by step
xanh lá cây traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Vietnamese lá cây
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vietnamese | lá cây | a leaf |
| 2 | Vietnamese | là | fine silk; to be; to iron |
| 3 | English | lä | Sixth tone of the diatonic scale |
| 4 | French | là | there; here, present |
| 5 | Italian | là | there |
| 6 | Spanish | la | feminine singular definite article; the |
| 7 | Portuguese | lá | there; used with an adverb phrase to indicate... |
| 8 | German | a | Alternative form of A; Abbreviation of a-Moll;... |
| 9 | German | a-Moll | A-minor |
| 10 | Hungarian | a | the; this; that |
| 11 | French | à | to; on the, to; at |
| 12 | Middle French | a | to; towards; third-person singular present... |
| 13 | Old French | a | to; towards; belonging to |
| 14 | Latin | A | — |
| 15 | Etruscan | 𐌀 | and, also |
| 16 | Ancient Greek | ᾱ̔ | — |
| 17 | Phoenician | 𐤀 | ox; aleph; alef |
via Vietnamese xanh
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vietnamese | xanh | grue; green; wok |
| 2 | French | saint | saint; saintly |
| 3 | Latin | sānctus | sacred, made inviolable, having been established as sacred |
| 4 | Latin | Iacobus | Jacob; James; Saint James |
| 5 | Ancient Greek | Ἰάκωβος | — |
| 6 | Ancient Greek | Ἰακώβ | Jacob |
| 7 | Hebrew | יַעֲקֹב | Jacob |
| 8 | Hebrew | עָקֵב | heel of the foot; heel |