Where does “bọ chét mèo” come from?
bọ chét mèo (Vietnamese) comes from Vietnamese mèo — cat; meow.
bọ chét mèo (Vietnamese): a cat flea (of the species Ctenocephalides felis)
Definitions
- a cat flea (of the species Ctenocephalides felis)
Ancestry of “bọ chét mèo”, step by step
bọ chét mèo traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Vietnamese mèo
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vietnamese | mèo | cat; meow |
via Vietnamese bọ chét
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vietnamese | bọ chét | a flea (a parasitic insect of the order Siphonaptera) |