Where does “bạn đọc” come from?

bạn đọc (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.

bạn đọc (Vietnamese): reader

Definitions

  1. reader

Ancestry of “bạn đọc”, step by step

bạn đọc traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Vietnamese bàn

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vietnamesebàntable; desk; board; to discuss; to talk over
2Frenchballe(small) ball
3Middle Frenchballeball; bundle
4Italianballalarge bundle, torsello, bale, reap; falsehood,...
5Old Frenchballe—
6Medieval Latinballa—
7Frankishballa—
8Proto-Germanicballuzround object, ball; ball of the hand, foot, etc
9Proto-Indo-Europeanbʰel-to sound; to speak, roar, bark; shiny, white; to...
10Proto-Indo-Europeanbʰōl-—

via Vietnamese đọc

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vietnameseđọcto read, to pronounce
2Chinese讀—
Every word from Proto-Indo-European bʰōl- →Every word from Proto-Indo-European bʰel- →Every word from Proto-Germanic balluz →