Where does “bánh vẽ” come from?
bánh vẽ (Vietnamese) comes from Vietnamese bánh, 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.
bánh vẽ (Vietnamese): cake drawing
Definitions
- cake drawing
Ancestry of “bánh vẽ”, step by step
bánh vẽ traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Vietnamese bánh
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vietnamese | bánh | any sweet, salty, or savory food prepared from... |
| 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- | — |
via Vietnamese vẽ
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vietnamese | vẽ | to draw; to paint; to contrive |
| 2 | French | vé | The name of the Latin-script letter V; calf; API! |
| 3 | Occitan | vei | — |
| 4 | Occitan | veire | to see |
| 5 | Latin | vitrum | glass; a woad; a plant used for dying blue; woad;... |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | wedrom | glass |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | wedro- | water-like |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | wed- | water |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | wey- | to wither; fade; to move, go ahead; to be strong;... |