Where does “bảng chữ cái” come from?
bảng chữ cái (Vietnamese) comes from Vietnamese băng, from French bande, from French là, from Italian là, from Spanish la, from Portuguese lá, from German a, from German a-Moll — ox; aleph; alef.
bảng chữ cái (Vietnamese): an alphabet; a set of all letters used to write a given language, arranged in a specific order
Definitions
- an alphabet; a set of all letters used to write a given language, arranged in a specific order
Ancestry of “bảng chữ cái”, step by step
bảng chữ cái traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Vietnamese băng
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vietnamese | băng | non-hail ice; band; strip; tape |
| 2 | French | bande | band, strip; stripe; strip |
| 3 | French | là | there; here, present |
| 4 | Italian | là | there |
| 5 | Spanish | la | feminine singular definite article; the |
| 6 | Portuguese | lá | there; used with an adverb phrase to indicate... |
| 7 | German | a | Alternative form of A; Abbreviation of a-Moll;... |
| 8 | German | a-Moll | A-minor |
| 9 | Hungarian | a | the; this; that |
| 10 | French | à | to; on the, to; at |
| 11 | Middle French | a | to; towards; third-person singular present... |
| 12 | Old French | a | to; towards; belonging to |
| 13 | Latin | A | — |
| 14 | Etruscan | 𐌀 | and, also |
| 15 | Ancient Greek | ᾱ̔ | — |
| 16 | Phoenician | 𐤀 | ox; aleph; alef |