Where does “bánh dẻo lạnh” come from?

bánh dẻo lạnh (Vietnamese) comes from Vietnamese bánh dẻo, from Vietnamese bánh, from French balle, from Middle French balle, from Italian balla, from Old French balle, from Medieval Latin balla, from Frankish balla.

bánh dẻo lạnh (Vietnamese): snow skin mooncake

Definitions

  1. snow skin mooncake

Ancestry of “bánh dẻo lạnh”, step by step

bánh dẻo lạnh traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Vietnamese bánh dẻo

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vietnamesebánh dẻobánh dẻo (sticky rice mooncake)
2Vietnamesebánhany sweet, salty, or savory food prepared from...
3Frenchballe(small) ball
4Middle Frenchballeball; bundle
5Italianballalarge bundle, torsello, bale, reap; falsehood,...
6Old Frenchballe
7Medieval Latinballa
8Frankishballa
9Proto-Germanicballuzround object, ball; ball of the hand, foot, etc
10Proto-Indo-Europeanbʰel-to sound; to speak, roar, bark; shiny, white; to...
11Proto-Indo-Europeanbʰōl-

via Vietnamese Lạnh

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1VietnameseLạnh
2Frenchlinlinen; flax
3Latinlīnumflax
4Proto-Italiclīnom
5Proto-Indo-Europeanlīnomflax
Every word from Proto-Indo-European bʰōl-Every word from Proto-Indo-European bʰel-Every word from Proto-Germanic balluz