Where does “bán chạy như tôm tươi” come from?
bán chạy như tôm tươi (Vietnamese) comes from Vietnamese bán chạy, from Vietnamese bàn, from French balle, from Middle French balle, from Italian balla, from Old French balle, from Medieval Latin balla, from Frankish balla.
bán chạy như tôm tươi (Vietnamese): to sell like hot cakes
Definitions
- to sell like hot cakes
Ancestry of “bán chạy như tôm tươi”, step by step
bán chạy như tôm tươi traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.
via Vietnamese bán chạy
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vietnamese | bán chạy | to sell quickly; to sell well |
| 2 | Vietnamese | bàn | table; desk; board; to discuss; to talk over |
| 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- | — |