Where does “để bụng” come from?
để bụng (Vietnamese) comes from Vietnamese bụng, from Khmer បង, from French bon, from Middle French bon, from Old French bon, from Latin bonus, from Old Latin duenos, from Proto-Italic dwenos — to show favour, revere; to fail, to lag, to be...
để bụng (Vietnamese): to keep to oneself
Definitions
- to keep to oneself
Ancestry of “để bụng”, step by step
để bụng traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Vietnamese bụng
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vietnamese | bụng | belly; feelings, personality |
| 2 | Khmer | បង | I, me, my; you, your; elder sibling |
| 3 | French | bon | good; right, correct; sexy, hot, smoking hot |
| 4 | Middle French | bon | good |
| 5 | Old French | bon | good |
| 6 | Latin | bonus | good, honest, brave, noble, kind, pleasant;... |
| 7 | Old Latin | duenos | Alternative form of duonus |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | dwenos | good |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | dew- | to show favour, revere; to fail, to lag, to be... |
via Vietnamese để
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vietnamese | để | to place; to set; to let; to leave; in order to,... |