Where does “ngón tay trỏ” come from?
ngón tay trỏ (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 trỏ (Vietnamese): the index finger; the forefinger
Definitions
- the index finger; the forefinger
Ancestry of “ngón tay trỏ”, step by step
ngón tay trỏ 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- | — |