Where does “mô tê” come from?
mô tê (Vietnamese) comes from Vietnamese tê, from French té, from Middle French te, from Old French te, from Latin tē, from Latin tū, from Proto-Italic tū, from Proto-Indo-European túh₂ — you, thou.
mô tê (Vietnamese): anything at all
Definitions
- anything at all
Ancestry of “mô tê”, step by step
mô tê traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Vietnamese tê
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vietnamese | tê | to be numb; that; there; those; The name of the... |
| 2 | French | té | The name of the Latin-script letter T |
| 3 | Middle French | te | you, "second-person singular object pronoun"; to... |
| 4 | Old French | te | you; to you; yourself |
| 5 | Latin | tē | — |
| 6 | Latin | tū | you (singular); thou |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | tū | you |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | túh₂ | you, thou |