Where does “đèn pin” come from?
đèn pin (Vietnamese) comes from Vietnamese pin, from French pile, from Old French pile, from Latin pila, from Latin pīlus, from Latin pīlum, from Proto-Italic pistlom, from Proto-Indo-European pis-tlo- — to grind, to crush.
đèn pin (Vietnamese): a flashlight
Definitions
- a flashlight
Ancestry of “đèn pin”, step by step
đèn pin traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Vietnamese pin
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vietnamese | pin | a battery; the amount of electricity that a... |
| 2 | French | pile | heap, stack; pillar; battery |
| 3 | Old French | pile | — |
| 4 | Latin | pila | mortar; pillar; pier |
| 5 | Latin | pīlus | a hair |
| 6 | Latin | pīlum | a pounder, pestle |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | pistlom | — |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | pis-tlo- | — |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | peys- | to grind, to crush |
via Vietnamese đèn
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vietnamese | đèn | a light; a lamp, an oil lamp, a light bulb, an... |