Where does “cào bằng” come from?
cào bằng (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.
cào bằng (Vietnamese): to see something/somebody as uniform and of no diverse grades or classes
Definitions
- to see something/somebody as uniform and of no diverse grades or classes
Ancestry of “cào bằng”, step by step
cào bằng 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 |