Where does “daih” come from?
daih (Zhuang) comes from Middle Chinese 大 — great.
daih (Zhuang): ordinal marker: -th; big; large; great; to behave...
Definitions
- ordinal marker: -th; big; large; great; to behave...
Ancestry of “daih”, step by step
daih traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Middle Chinese 大
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Middle Chinese | 大 | great |
via Proto-Kuki-Chin *dayʔ
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Proto-Kuki-Chin | *dayʔ | — |