Where does “mưu toan” come from?
mưu toan (Vietnamese) comes from Vietnamese toán, from French Toile, from Old French toile, from Old French teile, from Latin tēla, from Old Dutch tegela, from Proto-Germanic *tigulā, from Proto-Germanic tigulǭ — to cover; pole, stick, beam.
mưu toan (Vietnamese): to plot; to attempt
Definitions
- to plot; to attempt
Ancestry of “mưu toan”, step by step
mưu toan traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Vietnamese toán
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vietnamese | toán | a bunch; a gang; mathematics; math |
| 2 | French | Toile | Web; World Wide Web |
| 3 | Old French | toile | fabric; web |
| 4 | Old French | teile | Alternative form of toile |
| 5 | Latin | tēla | web |
| 6 | Old Dutch | tegela | — |
| 7 | Proto-Germanic | *tigulā | — |
| 8 | Proto-Germanic | tigulǭ | tile; brick |
| 9 | Latin | tēgula | a large, flat and heavy roof tile used in an overlapping formation with the curved and smaller imbrex |
| 10 | Latin | tegō | to cover; to clothe |
| 11 | Proto-Italic | tegō | cover |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | (s)teg- | to cover; pole, stick, beam |
via Vietnamese mưu
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vietnamese | mưu | scheme, plot, conspiracy |