Where does “điện thoại bàn” come from?
điện thoại bàn (Vietnamese) comes from Vietnamese bàn, from French balle, from Middle French balle, from Italian balla, from Old French balle, from Medieval Latin balla, from Frankish balla, from Proto-Germanic balluz.
điện thoại bàn (Vietnamese): landline telephone
Definitions
- landline telephone
Ancestry of “điện thoại bàn”, step by step
điện thoại bàn traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Vietnamese bàn
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vietnamese | bàn | table; desk; board; to discuss; to talk over |
| 2 | French | balle | (small) ball |
| 3 | Middle French | balle | ball; bundle |
| 4 | Italian | balla | large bundle, torsello, bale, reap; falsehood,... |
| 5 | Old French | balle | — |
| 6 | Medieval Latin | balla | — |
| 7 | Frankish | balla | — |
| 8 | Proto-Germanic | balluz | round object, ball; ball of the hand, foot, etc |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰel- | to sound; to speak, roar, bark; shiny, white; to... |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰōl- | — |
via Vietnamese điện thoại
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vietnamese | điện thoại | telephone; to telephone; to call |
| 2 | Japanese | 電話 | telephone; telephone call; phone call; call; to... |
| 3 | Japanese | 電 | lightning |
| 4 | Middle Chinese | 電 | — |