Where does “Toà tháp đôi” come from?

Toà tháp đôi (Vietnamese) comes from Vietnamese toà, from French toi, from Middle French toi, from Old French tei, from Latin tē, from Latin tū, from Proto-Italic tū, from Proto-Indo-European túh₂ — you, thou.

Toà tháp đôi (Vietnamese): the Twin Towers two main buildings of the World Trade Center

Definitions

  1. the Twin Towers two main buildings of the World Trade Center

Ancestry of “Toà tháp đôi”, step by step

Toà tháp đôi traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.

via Vietnamese toà

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1VietnamesetoàShort for toà án; your Honor
2FrenchtoiYou
3Middle FrenchtoiAlternative form of toy
4Old FrenchteiAlternative form of toi
5Latin
6Latinyou (singular); thou
7Proto-Italicyou
8Proto-Indo-Europeantúh₂you, thou

via Vietnamese đôi

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vietnameseđôidouble
2Middle Chinese

via Vietnamese tháp

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vietnamesethápa pagoda; a tower; a temple or temple complex
Every word from Proto-Indo-European túh₂