Where does “bánh mì kẹp” come from?
bánh mì kẹp (Vietnamese) comes from Vietnamese bánh mì, 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 mì kẹp (Vietnamese): sandwich
Definitions
- sandwich
Ancestry of “bánh mì kẹp”, step by step
bánh mì kẹp traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Vietnamese bánh mì
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vietnamese | bánh mì | bread, especially Saigon-style short baguettes... |
| 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- | — |
via Proto-Indo-European kep-
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Proto-Indo-European | kep- | — |