Where does “nước rửa tay” come from?
nước rửa tay (Vietnamese) comes from Vietnamese rửa, from French ajourer, from French ajour, from French à, from English avie, from French envie, from Latin invidia, from Latin invidus — in.
nước rửa tay (Vietnamese): hand sanitiser
Definitions
- hand sanitiser
Ancestry of “nước rửa tay”, step by step
nước rửa tay traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.
via Vietnamese rửa
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vietnamese | rửa | to wash something non-fabric and non-rice |
| 2 | French | ajourer | to perforate |
| 3 | French | ajour | a slit that lets in daylight |
| 4 | French | à | to; on the, to; at |
| 5 | English | avie | emulously |
| 6 | French | envie | desire, lust, urge; appetite, craving; envy |
| 7 | Latin | invidia | envy, grudge, jealousy, prejudice, spite; an... |
| 8 | Latin | invidus | envious; hostile, inimical |
| 9 | Latin | invideo | I look askance or maliciously at, cast an evil... |
| 10 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 11 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 12 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 13 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 14 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |
via Vietnamese Tây
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vietnamese | Tây | Alternative letter-case form of tây |
| 2 | Chinese | 西 | — |
| 3 | English | West | Any of various particular regions named for the cardinal direction in which they lie |
| 4 | Middle English | west | west; A location to the south; the south; The... |
| 5 | Old English | west | west |
| 6 | Proto-West Germanic | *westr | western, westernly |
| 7 | Proto-Germanic | westrą | west; west, westward |
| 8 | Proto-Germanic | westraz | west, western |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | wek(ʷ)speros | evening |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | we- | — |