Where does “cần tây” come from?
cần tây (Vietnamese) comes from Vietnamese Tây, from Chinese 西, from English West, from Middle English west, from Old English west, from Proto-West Germanic *westr, from Proto-Germanic westrą, from Proto-Germanic westraz.
cần tây (Vietnamese): celery
Definitions
- celery
Ancestry of “cần tây”, step by step
cần tây traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Vietnamese Tây
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vietnamese | Tây | Alternative letter-case form of tây |
| 2 | Chinese | 西 | — |
| 3 | English | West | Any of various particular regions named for the cardinal direction in which they lie |
| 4 | Middle English | west | west; A location to the south; the south; The... |
| 5 | Old English | west | west |
| 6 | Proto-West Germanic | *westr | western, westernly |
| 7 | Proto-Germanic | westrą | west; west, westward |
| 8 | Proto-Germanic | westraz | west, western |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | wek(ʷ)speros | evening |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | we- | — |
via Vietnamese cân
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vietnamese | cân | kilogram; a weighing instrument; a balance,... |
| 2 | French | calque | tracing; calque, loan translation; layer |
| 3 | French | calquer | to model, to imitate, to copy; to trace, to copy... |
| 4 | English | ER | The statistic "Earned Run"; Initialism of... |
| 5 | Turkish | er | early; brave; man, male |
| 6 | Ottoman Turkish | ایر | saddle, a seat for a rider placed on the back of a horse or other animal |
| 7 | Old Anatolian Turkish | ایر | early, at a time in advance of the usual or expected event |
| 8 | Proto-Turkic | ēder | saddle |