va

Etymology
Either from, from , or from ; impossible to determine. Possibly forms a.

Noun

 * 1) ford
 * 2)  forest passageway
 * 3)  way out

Pronoun

 * 1) my

Etymology 1
, inherited from.

Adjective

 * 1) vain having no real substance
 * 2) vain effecting no real purpose

Etymology 2
, third person singular present active indicative of. Usurped theoretically correct "ana" (from ambulāt; see ) as the third person singular present of "anar".

Etymology
From Proto-Central Pacific *vaa, from, from , from , from , from. Cognate to 🇨🇬.

Numeral

 * 1)  four

Etymology
Respectively from (indicative) and  (imperative), forms of.

Noun

 * 1) wife

Etymology
From, from Pre-Hlai (Norquest, 2015).

Noun

 * 1) boat

Etymology
From, third person singular present active indicative of , and , second-person singular present active imperative of the same verb, respectively.

Etymology
From.

Verb

 * 1) to hear, to understand

Interjection

 * 1) here you are; here you go; voilà; lo; behold

Verb

 * 1) Here is.
 * 2) There is.
 * 1) There is.
 * 1) There is.

Synonyms

 * (suitable for use in formal contexts)

Etymology
From.

Verb

 * 1)  to go
 * 2) to go

Noun

 * 1) house

Etymology
Possibly from

Verb

 * 1) to give
 * 2) to let, allow
 * 1) to let, allow

Etymology
From, from. Cognate with 🇨🇬.

Preposition

 * 1)  from

Etymology
From.

Etymology
From, from.

Verb

 * 1)  to wade

Verb

 * 1)  to be
 * 2)  was

Etymology
Derived from original by analogy with numbers  and. The pronouns and  were used interchangeably regardless of the gender.

Pronoun

 * 1) we two

Etymology 1
From.

Particle

 * 1)  like, as if

Etymology
From.

Verb

 * 1) to understand

Etymology 1
Probably from the third-person singular present indicative of, used in its special conjugation as an auxiliary verb (cf. the first-person , from Vulgar Latin ). This semantic shift is visible in most languages of the, compare with 🇨🇬 < , 🇨🇬 < , 🇨🇬 < , 🇨🇬 < : all being somewhat reduced forms of "I wish to sing".

An alternative etymology is that it began originally as the now rare word in etymology 2 below, from forms of Latin, and was confused with conjugated forms of /  in Romanian; compare  to the constructions in 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬 with the same meaning (literally, "I am going to sing").

Verb

 * 1) (he/she) will

Etymology 2
, third person singular present active indicative of. It is also rarely used as a second person singular imperative form, meaning "go", from Latin (and plural form  from ). 16th century Transylvanian documents also display respective variant forms and. Cognate with 🇨🇬.

Verb

 * 1) (to go), only used in mai va (see usage notes).
 * 2)  go (imperative) (plural )

Usage notes
The conjugation for this verb is defective, with the only remaining form being va, used in the expression "mai va", meaning "it will take longer or there is more to go (until then)".

Etymology 1
, third person singular present active indicative of.

Etymology 2
Short form of.

Interjection

 * 1)  okay

Etymology
From.

Verb

 * 1) to understand

Noun

 * 1) water supply and sewage;

Declension
Uninflected.

Etymology 2
From.

Interjection

 * 1) huh? what? A request that the speaker repeat their last statement, or an expression of disbelief.

Noun

 * 1) snow

Etymology
.

Conjunction

 * 1) and

Etymology
From, , , and forms of.

Verb

 * 1) to bump into (something)

Etymology 2
Attested in the Dictionarium Annamiticum Lusitanum et Latinum (1651) as.

Compare 🇨🇬.

Pronoun

 * 1)  he/him; she/her; they/them

Usage notes

 * When used on its own, this word seems to be used chiefly as a literary device for narration purpose (similar to modern ), and not as a word commonly used in the spoken language. However, when occurring in compounds (such as, etc.), it did seem to be used colloquially.
 * It did not seem to carry any inherent honorific nor pejorative function, so its connotation on its own was likely fairly neutral.
 * Although most attestations show its usage for males, this word was also used to refer to females, such as in Trương Vĩnh Ký's Tích Túy-Kiều (1911), which is a prose retelling of Nguyễn Du's Truyện Kiều:

Verb

 * 1) to feel

Etymology 2
From.

Verb

 * 1) to understand
 * 2) to hear

Etymology
From, from , from.

Noun

 * 1) wind

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) flower

Etymology
From, from. Cognates include 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) bird