Where does “no bụng đói con mắt” come from?
no bụng đói con mắt (Vietnamese) comes from Vietnamese no bụng, from Vietnamese nổ, from Vietnamese lò, from Vietnamese bỏ, from English board, from English boardrider, from English rider, from Middle English ridere — to fit, to fix, to put together.
no bụng đói con mắt (Vietnamese): having eyes bigger than one's stomach
Definitions
- having eyes bigger than one's stomach
Ancestry of “no bụng đói con mắt”, step by step
no bụng đói con mắt traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.
via Vietnamese no bụng
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vietnamese | no bụng | having a full stomach; satiated |
| 2 | Vietnamese | nổ | to explode; to pop; to burst |
| 3 | Vietnamese | lò | kiln, furnace, oven, heater |
| 4 | Vietnamese | bỏ | to put, to place; to leave, to abandon; to quit |
| 5 | English | board | A relatively long, wide and thin piece of any... |
| 6 | English | boardrider | surfer |
| 7 | English | rider | One who rides, often on a horse or a motorcycle;... |
| 8 | Middle English | ridere | Alternative form of ryder |
| 9 | Middle English | ryder | A rider or equestrian; one who rides a horse; A... |
| 10 | Old English | rīdere | rider, knight |
| 11 | Old English | rīdan | to ride |
| 12 | Proto-West Germanic | rīdan | to ride |
| 13 | Proto-Germanic | rīdaną | to ride |
| 14 | Proto-Indo-European | rēydʰ- | — |
| 15 | Proto-Indo-European | h₂er- | to fit, to fix, to put together |
via Vietnamese đói
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vietnamese | đói | hungry (desirous of food) |