Where does “NTV” come from?
NTV (Vietnamese) comes from Vietnamese TV, from English tv, from English televisión, from French télévision, from German Television, from Italian televisione, from Spanish televisión, from Spanish tele- — resin.
NTV (Vietnamese): Nghe An Radio - Television Station
Definitions
- Nghe An Radio - Television Station
Ancestry of “NTV”, step by step
NTV traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Vietnamese TV
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vietnamese | TV | Initialism of ti-vi |
| 2 | English | tv | Alternative form of TV |
| 3 | English | televisión | An electronic communication medium that allows the transmission of real-time visual images, and often sound |
| 4 | French | télévision | television |
| 5 | German | Television | — |
| 6 | Italian | televisione | television |
| 7 | Spanish | televisión | television |
| 8 | Spanish | tele- | tele |
| 9 | Ancient Greek | τῆλε | far off, afar, far away |
| 10 | Latin | commūnicāre | — |
| 11 | Latin | commūnis | common, commonplace, ordinary, general, universal, shared, shared alike, of both sides, belonging to two or more together |
| 12 | Old Latin | com(m)oinis | — |
| 13 | Proto-Italic | kommoinis | common |
| 14 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱom-moy-ni- | held in common |
| 15 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱóm | beside, near, by, with |
| 16 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 17 | Middle English | kyt | — |
| 18 | German | kitt | putty certain kinds of cement used for fixing e.g. window panes |
| 19 | Old High German | kuti | — |
| 20 | Proto-West Germanic | kwidu | gum, resin |
| 21 | Proto-Germanic | kweduz | resin |
via Vietnamese Nghệ An
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vietnamese | Nghệ An | Nghệ An, a province in the North Central Coast region of Vietnam |