Where does “daeuh'ien” come from?

daeuh'ien (Zhuang) comes from Zhuang ien, from Middle Chinese 煙.

daeuh'ien (Zhuang): cigarette ash

Definitions

  1. cigarette ash

Ancestry of “daeuh'ien”, step by step

daeuh'ien traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Zhuang ien

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Zhuangientobacco; API; cigarette
2Middle Chinese煙—

via Zhuang daeuh

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Zhuangdaeuhash
2Proto-Taidawᴮashes
Every word from Middle Chinese 煙 →Every word from Zhuang ien →