Where does “chè bánh xếp” come from?
chè bánh xếp (Vietnamese) comes from Vietnamese bánh xếp, 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 xếp (Vietnamese): a type of dessert soup with gelatinous dumplings inside
Definitions
- a type of dessert soup with gelatinous dumplings inside
Ancestry of “chè bánh xếp”, step by step
chè bánh xếp traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Vietnamese bánh xếp
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vietnamese | bánh xếp | a type of dumpling (typically fried) |
| 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- | — |