each other, mutually, reciprocally, one another · together
köken: Attested in Phật thuyết đại báo phụ mẫu ân trọng kinh (佛說大報父母恩重經) as 𬼀, the abbreviated form of 饒 (MC nyew) (modern SV: nhiêu). Attested as nhau, dau (“each other”), in the Dictionarium Annamiticum Lusitanum et Latinum (1651). Possibly arose from etymology 2 and replaced chắc as the reciprocal marker in the non-North Central dialects, firmly established already in the Northern Old Vietnamese of…
From Middle High German einander, from Old High German compound of ein (“one”) + andar (“other”, modern German ander). Semantically limited by the ein (“one”) to singular contexts, similar to one another or each other. The combined form einander does not inflect in modern German, and may be used unchanged in dative and accusative grammatical cases. Older forms could show inflection on the second…