Where does “ban trưa” come from?
ban trưa (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.
ban trưa (Vietnamese): noon
Definitions
- noon
Ancestry of “ban trưa”, step by step
ban trưa traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Vietnamese bàn
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vietnamese | bàn | table; desk; board; to discuss; to talk over |
| 2 | French | balle | (small) ball |
| 3 | Middle French | balle | ball; bundle |
| 4 | Italian | balla | large bundle, torsello, bale, reap; falsehood,... |
| 5 | Old French | balle | — |
| 6 | Medieval Latin | balla | — |
| 7 | Frankish | balla | — |
| 8 | Proto-Germanic | balluz | round object, ball; ball of the hand, foot, etc |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰel- | to sound; to speak, roar, bark; shiny, white; to... |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰōl- | — |