Where does “bàn chải” come from?
bàn chải (Vietnamese) comes from Vietnamese bàn, from French balle, from Middle French balle, from Italian balla, from Old French balle, from Medieval Latin balla, from Frankish balla, from Proto-Germanic balluz.
bàn chải (Vietnamese): a handheld brush for cleaning
Definitions
- a handheld brush for cleaning
Ancestry of “bàn chải”, step by step
bàn chải traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Vietnamese bàn
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vietnamese | bàn | table; desk; board; to discuss; to talk over |
| 2 | French | balle | (small) ball |
| 3 | Middle French | balle | ball; bundle |
| 4 | Italian | balla | large bundle, torsello, bale, reap; falsehood,... |
| 5 | Old French | balle | — |
| 6 | Medieval Latin | balla | — |
| 7 | Frankish | balla | — |
| 8 | Proto-Germanic | balluz | round object, ball; ball of the hand, foot, etc |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰel- | to sound; to speak, roar, bark; shiny, white; to... |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰōl- | — |
via Vietnamese chải
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vietnamese | chải | to comb |
| 2 | Proto-Vietic | *ɟaːl | — |
| 3 | Sanskrit | जाल | watery; Nauclea cadamba; a small cucumber |
| 4 | Sanskrit | पृष्ठ | the back; the hinder part or rear of anything |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-Aryan | pr̥ṣṭʰás | — |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-Iranian | pr̥štʰás | back |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | pr̥-sth₂-ós | — |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | per- | before, in front; first; to go through |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | pr̥tós | passed , crossed |