Where does “bóng bàn” come from?
bóng bàn (Vietnamese) comes from Vietnamese bàn, 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.
bóng bàn (Vietnamese): table tennis; table tennis ball
Definitions
- table tennis; table tennis ball
Ancestry of “bóng bàn”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Vietnamese | bàn | table; desk; board; to discuss; to talk over |
| 2 | French | balle | ball; bullet; franc , euro |
| 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- | — |