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Where does “ích-xì” come from?

ích-xì (Vietnamese) comes from French ixe, from Latin ille, from Latin olle, from Proto-Italic *olnos.

ích-xì (Vietnamese): The name of the Latin-script letter X

Definitions

  1. The name of the Latin-script letter X

Ancestry of “ích-xì”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchixeex. The name of the Latin-script letter X;...
2Latinillethat; those; "; demonstrative pronoun "; that...
3LatinolleArchaic form of ille
4Proto-Italic*olnos—
Every word from Proto-Italic *olnos →