Where does “bằng phẳng” come from?

bằng phẳng (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 phẳng (Vietnamese): even and flat; smooth

Definitions

  1. even and flat; smooth

Ancestry of “bằng phẳng”, step by step

bằng phẳng traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Vietnamese băng

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vietnamesebăngnon-hail ice; band; strip; tape
2Frenchbandeband, strip; stripe; strip
3Frenchlàthere; here, present
4Italianlàthere
5Spanishlafeminine singular definite article; the
6Portugueseláthere; 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 phẳng

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vietnamesephẳnglevel, flat, even
2Proto-Taiʰwaŋᴮ—
Every word from Phoenician 𐤀 →Every word from Ancient Greek ᾱ̔ →Every word from Etruscan 𐌀 →