Where does “Tây ba lô” come from?
Tây ba lô (Vietnamese) comes from Vietnamese ba lô, from French ballot, from French balle, from Middle French balle, from Italian balla, from Old French balle, from Medieval Latin balla, from Frankish balla.
Tây ba lô (Vietnamese): Western backpacker
Definitions
- Western backpacker
Ancestry of “Tây ba lô”, step by step
Tây ba lô traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Vietnamese ba lô
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vietnamese | ba lô | backpack |
| 2 | French | ballot | bundle, package; fool, nitwit |
| 3 | French | balle | (small) ball |
| 4 | Middle French | balle | ball; bundle |
| 5 | Italian | balla | large bundle, torsello, bale, reap; falsehood,... |
| 6 | Old French | balle | — |
| 7 | Medieval Latin | balla | — |
| 8 | Frankish | balla | — |
| 9 | Proto-Germanic | balluz | round object, ball; ball of the hand, foot, etc |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰel- | to sound; to speak, roar, bark; shiny, white; to... |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰōl- | — |
via Vietnamese Tây
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vietnamese | Tây | Alternative letter-case form of tây |
| 2 | Chinese | 西 | — |
| 3 | English | West | Any of various particular regions named for the cardinal direction in which they lie |
| 4 | Middle English | west | west; A location to the south; the south; The... |
| 5 | Old English | west | west |
| 6 | Proto-West Germanic | *westr | western, westernly |
| 7 | Proto-Germanic | westrą | west; west, westward |
| 8 | Proto-Germanic | westraz | west, western |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | wek(ʷ)speros | evening |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | we- | — |