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
Ancestry of “Tây ba lô”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Vietnamese | ba lô | backpack |
| 2 | French | ballot | bundle, package; fool, nitwit |
| 3 | French | balle | ball; bullet; franc , euro |
| 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- | — |