Where does “nhà táng” come from?
nhà táng (Vietnamese) comes from Vietnamese tăng, from English tangent, from Latin tangentem, from Latin tangens, from Latin tangō, from Proto-Italic *tangō, from Proto-Indo-European denḱ- — to bite.
nhà táng (Vietnamese): kind of model house, made from bamboo or paper and can be brightly colored, placed above the coffin
Definitions
- kind of model house, made from bamboo or paper and can be brightly colored, placed above the coffin
Ancestry of “nhà táng”, step by step
nhà táng traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Vietnamese tăng
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vietnamese | tăng | to increase; monk |
| 2 | English | tangent | A straight line touching a curve at a single... |
| 3 | Latin | tangentem | accusative masculine singular of tangēns;... |
| 4 | Latin | tangens | touching, grasping; reaching, arriving at;... |
| 5 | Latin | tangō | to touch, grasp |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | *tangō | — |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | denḱ- | to bite |