Where does “nhôm” come from?
nhôm (Vietnamese) comes from Vietnamese a-luy-mi-nhôm, from French aluminium, from English aluminium, from Latin alūmen, from English -ium, from Latin -um, from Proto-Italic *-om, from Proto-Indo-European *-oHom.
nhôm (Vietnamese): aluminium
Ancestry of “nhôm”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Vietnamese | a-luy-mi-nhôm | — |
| 2 | French | aluminium | aluminum |
| 3 | English | aluminium | A light, silvery metal extracted from bauxite,... |
| 4 | Latin | alūmen | — |
| 5 | English | -ium | 1997, Bryan Pfaffenberger, "Official Microsoft... |
| 6 | Latin | -um | nominative neuter singular of -us; accusative... |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | *-om | — |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | *-oHom | — |