Where does “denva” come from?

denva (Zhuang) comes from Chinese Mandarin 電話, from Japanese 電話, from Japanese 電, from Middle Chinese 電.

denva (Zhuang): telephone

Definitions

  1. telephone

Ancestry of “denva”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Chinese Mandarin電話—
2Japanese電話telephone; telephone call; phone call; call; to...
3Japanese電lightning
4Middle Chinese電—
Every word from Middle Chinese 電 →Every word from Japanese 電 →Every word from Japanese 電話 →