Where does “ngón tay thối” come from?
ngón tay thối (Vietnamese) comes from Vietnamese ngón tay, from Vietnamese Tây, from Chinese 西, from English West, from Middle English west, from Old English west, from Proto-West Germanic *westr, from Proto-Germanic westrą.
ngón tay thối (Vietnamese): the finger; the middle finger
Definitions
- the finger; the middle finger
Ancestry of “ngón tay thối”, step by step
ngón tay thối traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Vietnamese ngón tay
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vietnamese | ngón tay | finger |
| 2 | Vietnamese | Tây | Alternative letter-case form of tây |
| 3 | Chinese | 西 | — |
| 4 | English | West | Any of various particular regions named for the cardinal direction in which they lie |
| 5 | Middle English | west | west; A location to the south; the south; The... |
| 6 | Old English | west | west |
| 7 | Proto-West Germanic | *westr | western, westernly |
| 8 | Proto-Germanic | westrą | west; west, westward |
| 9 | Proto-Germanic | westraz | west, western |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | wek(ʷ)speros | evening |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | we- | — |