Where does “khoai tây chiên” come from?
khoai tây chiên (Vietnamese) comes from Vietnamese khoai tây, from Vietnamese Tây, from Chinese 西, from English West, from Middle English west, from Old English west, from Proto-West Germanic *westr, from Proto-Germanic westrą.
khoai tây chiên (Vietnamese): French fries
Ancestry of “khoai tây chiên”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Vietnamese | khoai tây | potato |
| 2 | Vietnamese | Tây | Alternative letter-case form of tây |
| 3 | Chinese | 西 | — |
| 4 | English | West | — |
| 5 | Middle English | west | west; A location to the south; the south; The... |
| 6 | Old English | west | west |
| 7 | Proto-West Germanic | *westr | — |
| 8 | Proto-Germanic | westrą | west; west, westward |
| 9 | Proto-Germanic | westraz | west, western |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | wek(ʷ)speros | evening |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | we- | — |