Where does “bằng lái” come from?

bằng lái (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.

bằng lái (Vietnamese): driver's license

Definitions

  1. driver's license

Ancestry of “bằng lái”, step by step

bằng lái traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Vietnamese băng

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vietnamesebăngnon-hail ice; band; strip; tape
2Frenchbandeband, strip; stripe; strip
3Frenchthere; here, present
4Italianthere
5Spanishlafeminine singular definite article; the
6Portuguesethere; used with an adverb phrase to indicate...
7GermanaAlternative form of A; Abbreviation of a-Moll;...
8Germana-MollA-minor
9Hungarianathe; this; that
10Frenchàto; on the, to; at
11Middle Frenchato; towards; third-person singular present...
12Old Frenchato; towards; belonging to
13LatinA
14Etruscan𐌀and, also
15Ancient Greekᾱ̔
16Phoenician𐤀ox; aleph; alef

via Vietnamese lại

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vietnameselạiagain; on the other hand, meanwhile; to come
2Chinese
3EnglishlineA path through two or more points (compare ‘segment’); a continuous mark, including as made by a pen; any path, curved or straight
4Middle Englishlinerope, cord; line, rule, ruler, measure; rule,...
5Old Englishlīneline, rope, cord; line, cable, rope, hawser,...
6Proto-West Germanic*līnāline, chord, rope, string
7Proto-Germaniclīnǭthat which is made of flax; line, chord, rope,...
8Proto-Germaniclīnąflax
9Proto-Indo-Europeanlīno-flax
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