Where does “nấm lùn” come from?
nấm lùn (Vietnamese) comes from Scottish Gaelic Lùn, from Scottish Gaelic Lùnastal, from Old Irish Lugnasad, from Old Irish nasad, from Polish nasadzić, from Polish sadzić, from Proto-Slavic saditi, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *sōdī́ˀtei — Creates transitive imperfective verbs from roots.
nấm lùn (Vietnamese): A short person
Definitions
- A short person
Ancestry of “nấm lùn”, step by step
nấm lùn traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Scottish Gaelic Lùn
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Scottish Gaelic | Lùn | Aug August |
| 2 | Scottish Gaelic | Lùnastal | August eighth month of the Gregorian calendar |
| 3 | Old Irish | Lugnasad | Lammas |
| 4 | Old Irish | nasad | festival |
| 5 | Polish | nasadzić | to plant many of something |
| 6 | Polish | sadzić | to plant |
| 7 | Proto-Slavic | saditi | to plant |
| 8 | Proto-Balto-Slavic | *sōdī́ˀtei | to set, to plant |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | sodéyeti | to set, to seat, to cause to sit |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | -éyeti | Forms causative imperfective verbs from roots;... |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | -yeti | Creates transitive imperfective verbs from roots |