Where does “Uông Bí” come from?
Uông Bí (English) comes from Vietnamese Uông Bí, from Vietnamese bí, from French bille, from Middle French bille, from Old French bille, from Vulgar Latin billia, from Gaulish bilia, from Proto-Celtic belyom.
Ancestry of “Uông Bí”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vietnamese | Uông Bí | — |
| 2 | Vietnamese | bí | pumpkin; other plants in the Cucurbitaceae... |
| 3 | French | bille | marble; ball; ball bearing |
| 4 | Middle French | bille | — |
| 5 | Old French | bille | stick; baton; written decree, announcement |
| 6 | Vulgar Latin | billia | — |
| 7 | Gaulish | bilia | tall tree |
| 8 | Proto-Celtic | belyom | tree |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰolh₃yom | leaf |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰleh₃- | bloom, flower |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰel- | to sound; to speak, roar, bark; shiny, white; to... |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰōl- | — |