Where does “kẹt xe” come from?
kẹt xe (Vietnamese) comes from Vietnamese xế, from French cé, from Spanish éste, from Latin iste, from Latin hāc, from Latin hīc, from Latin heic, from Latin hic — whale, sea monster; abyss.
kẹt xe (Vietnamese): traffic jam
Definitions
- traffic jam
Ancestry of “kẹt xe”, step by step
kẹt xe traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Vietnamese xế
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vietnamese | xế | wheeled vehicle; to be sinking; to be on the... |
| 2 | French | cé | The name of the Latin-script letter C |
| 3 | Spanish | éste | this one |
| 4 | Latin | iste | that near you; those in the plural |
| 5 | Latin | hāc | this way; these; in this place (or way) |
| 6 | Latin | hīc | this; these in the plural |
| 7 | Latin | heic | — |
| 8 | Latin | hic | this; these in the plural |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | hek(e) | — |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | gʰi-ḱe | this, here |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 12 | Middle English | kyt | — |
| 13 | Russian | кит | whale; genitive plural of ки́та |
| 14 | Old Church Slavonic | китъ | whale |
| 15 | Ancient Greek | κῆτος | whale, sea monster; abyss |
via Proto-Indo-European ḱet-
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱet- | to be angry |