Where does “bàn mổ” come from?
bàn mổ (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 mổ (Vietnamese): operating table
Definitions
- operating table
Ancestry of “bàn mổ”, step by step
bàn mổ 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- | — |