Where does “dĩa cân” come from?

dĩa cân (Vietnamese) comes from Vietnamese cân, from French calque, from French calquer, from English ER, from Turkish er, from Ottoman Turkish ایر, from Old Anatolian Turkish ایر, from Proto-Turkic ēder — saddle.

dĩa cân (Vietnamese): scalepan

Definitions

  1. scalepan

Ancestry of “dĩa cân”, step by step

dĩa cân traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Vietnamese cân

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vietnamesecânkilogram; a weighing instrument; a balance,...
2Frenchcalquetracing; calque, loan translation; layer
3Frenchcalquerto model, to imitate, to copy; to trace, to copy...
4EnglishERThe statistic "Earned Run"; Initialism of...
5Turkisherearly; brave; man, male
6Ottoman Turkishایرsaddle, a seat for a rider placed on the back of a horse or other animal
7Old Anatolian Turkishایرearly, at a time in advance of the usual or expected event
8Proto-Turkicēdersaddle

via Vietnamese dĩa

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vietnamesedĩaa plate, a dish, a saucer, etc; a disc, a disk,...
2Chinese
3Middle Chineseto fold
Every word from Proto-Turkic ēder