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Where does “ngá” come from?
ngá (Zou) comes from Chinese ŋaʔ, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *ŋas.
ngá
(Zou): five
Definitions
five
Ancestry of “ngá”, step by step
Step
Language
Word
Meaning
1
Chinese
ŋaʔ
—
2
Proto-Sino-Tibetan
*ŋas
—
Words derived from “ngá”
ngathu
sawmnga
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