Where does “mã vạch” come from?

mã vạch (Vietnamese) comes from Vietnamese Mã, from Chinese 碼, from English Mark, from German mark, from Latin Mārcus, from Latin Martīnus, from Latin -īnus, from Proto-Italic -īnos — adjectival suffix.

mã vạch (Vietnamese): barcode

Definitions

  1. barcode

Ancestry of “mã vạch”, step by step

mã vạch traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Vietnamese Mã

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1VietnameseMã—
2Chinese碼—
3EnglishMarkAbbreviation of Markarian
4Germanmarkmark any of various European monetary units
5LatinMārcus—
6LatinMartīnus—
7Latin-īnusof or pertaining to; -ine
8Proto-Italic-īnosof/belonging to
9Proto-Indo-European-iHnosCreates adjectives of materials
10Proto-Indo-European-no-adjectival suffix

via Vietnamese vạch

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vietnamesevạchto make a line; to draw, to outline; to separate,...
2Chinese劃—
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -no- →Every word from Latin -īnus →Every word from Latin Martīnus →