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
- 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
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vietnamese | bánh dẻo | bánh dẻo (sticky rice mooncake) |
| 2 | Vietnamese | bánh | any sweet, salty, or savory food prepared from... |
| 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- | — |