Where does “Chiến tranh thế giới thứ hai” come from?
Chiến tranh thế giới thứ hai (Vietnamese) comes from Vietnamese thứ hai, from Vietnamese hái, from English Hi, from English high, from Middle English heigh, from Old English hēah, from Old English hām, from Proto-West Germanic haim — to be lying down; to settle.
Chiến tranh thế giới thứ hai (Vietnamese): World War II
Definitions
- World War II
Ancestry of “Chiến tranh thế giới thứ hai”, step by step
Chiến tranh thế giới thứ hai traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Vietnamese thứ hai
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vietnamese | thứ hai | second; Monday |
| 2 | Vietnamese | hái | to pluck a plant or piece of fruit for later... |
| 3 | English | Hi | a short form of Hiram |
| 4 | English | high | Elevated, extending above a base or average... |
| 5 | Middle English | heigh | high; Alternative form of hey; Alternative form... |
| 6 | Old English | hēah | high, tall, lofty, high-class, exalted, sublime,... |
| 7 | Old English | hām | home; village, community; village, hamlet, manor,... |
| 8 | Proto-West Germanic | haim | home |
| 9 | Proto-Germanic | haimaz | home; house; village |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱóymos | of the home, belonging to the family; village,... |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱey- | to be lying down; to settle |
via Vietnamese chiến tranh thế giới
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vietnamese | chiến tranh thế giới | a world war |
| 2 | Vietnamese | thế giới | the world; the globe; a store or shop that... |
| 3 | Middle Chinese | 世界 | — |