Where does “chè bánh lọt” come from?
chè bánh lọt (Vietnamese) comes from Vietnamese bánh lọt, from Vietnamese bánh, from French balle, from Middle French balle, from Italian balla, from Old French balle, from Medieval Latin balla, from Frankish balla.
chè bánh lọt (Vietnamese): cendol (a type of dessert milk tea with strands of green jelly submerged inside)
Definitions
- cendol (a type of dessert milk tea with strands of green jelly submerged inside)
Ancestry of “chè bánh lọt”, step by step
chè bánh lọt traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Vietnamese bánh lọt
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vietnamese | bánh lọt | cendol |
| 2 | Vietnamese | bánh | any sweet, salty, or savory food prepared from... |
| 3 | French | balle | (small) ball |
| 4 | Middle French | balle | ball; bundle |
| 5 | Italian | balla | large bundle, torsello, bale, reap; falsehood,... |
| 6 | Old French | balle | — |
| 7 | Medieval Latin | balla | — |
| 8 | Frankish | balla | — |
| 9 | Proto-Germanic | balluz | round object, ball; ball of the hand, foot, etc |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰel- | to sound; to speak, roar, bark; shiny, white; to... |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰōl- | — |