Where does “đậu tây” come from?

đậu tây (Vietnamese) comes from Vietnamese Tây, from Chinese 西, from English West, from Middle English west, from Old English west, from Proto-West Germanic *westr, from Proto-Germanic westrą, from Proto-Germanic westraz.

đậu tây (Vietnamese): kidney bean

Definitions

  1. kidney bean

Ancestry of “đậu tây”, step by step

đậu tây traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Vietnamese Tây

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1VietnameseTâyAlternative letter-case form of tây
2Chinese西—
3EnglishWestAny of various particular regions named for the cardinal direction in which they lie
4Middle Englishwestwest; A location to the south; the south; The...
5Old Englishwestwest
6Proto-West Germanic*westrwestern, westernly
7Proto-Germanicwestrąwest; west, westward
8Proto-Germanicwestrazwest, western
9Proto-Indo-Europeanwek(ʷ)sperosevening
10Proto-Indo-Europeanwe-—

via Vietnamese đậu

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vietnameseđậubean; nut; to park
2Vietnameseđậu phụtofu
3Chinese豆腐tofu; bean curd; any food with tofu-like physical...
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