Where does “nông cạn” come from?

nông cạn (Vietnamese) comes from Vietnamese nóng, from Chinese 農, from English Sino-Tibetan, from English Tibetan, from English -an, from Italian -ana, from Spanish -ana, from Latin -ana.

nông cạn (Vietnamese): superficial; perfunctory; shallow

Definitions

  1. superficial; perfunctory; shallow

Ancestry of “nông cạn”, step by step

nông cạn traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Vietnamese nóng

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vietnamesenónghot; hot-tempered; quick-tempered; irritable;...
2Chinese
3EnglishSino-TibetanOf, or relating to, both China and Tibet; Of the...
4EnglishTibetanPertaining to Tibet, the Tibetan people, culture,...
5English-anOf or pertaining to;
6Italian-ana-an, -y
7Spanish-anafeminine singular of -ano
8Latin-anainflection of -ānus: ## nominative/vocative...
9Latin-anusOf or pertaining to; -ian
10Latin-umnominative neuter singular of -us; accusative...
11Proto-Italic*-om
12Proto-Indo-European*-oHom

via Vietnamese cân

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vietnamesecânkilogram; a weighing instrument; a balance,...
2Frenchcalquetracing; calque, loan translation; layer
3Frenchcalquerto model, to imitate, to copy; to trace, to copy...
4EnglishERThe statistic "Earned Run"; Initialism of...
5Turkisherearly; brave; man, male
6Ottoman Turkishایرsaddle, a seat for a rider placed on the back of a horse or other animal
7Old Anatolian Turkishایرearly, at a time in advance of the usual or expected event
8Proto-Turkicēdersaddle
Every word from Proto-Indo-European *-oHomEvery word from Latin -anaEvery word from English -an