Where does “gan bàn tay” come from?
gan bàn tay (Vietnamese) comes from Vietnamese bàn tay, from Vietnamese bàn, from French balle, from Middle French balle, from Italian balla, from Old French balle, from Medieval Latin balla, from Frankish balla.
gan bàn tay (Vietnamese): palm
Ancestry of “gan bàn tay”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Vietnamese | bàn tay | hand; hand; participation; involvement |
| 2 | Vietnamese | bàn | table; desk; board; to discuss; to talk over |
| 3 | French | balle | ball; bullet; franc , euro |
| 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- | — |