Where does “phân vùng” come from?

phân vùng (Vietnamese) comes from Vietnamese phân, from Chinese 粉, from English fans, from English fan, from English fanatic, from French fanatique, from Latin fānāticus, from Latin -aticus — Forms adjectives from nouns, indicating the possession of a thing or a quality.

phân vùng (Vietnamese): to mark off into (economic) zones; to partition

Definitions

  1. to mark off into (economic) zones; to partition

Ancestry of “phân vùng”, step by step

phân vùng traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Vietnamese phân

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vietnamesephânstool; faeces; excrement; fertiliser; manure; an...
2Chinesevermicelli
3Englishfansplural of fan; Third-person singular simple...
4EnglishfanA hand-held device consisting of concertinaed...
5EnglishfanaticFanatical; Showing evidence of possession by a...
6Frenchfanatiquefanatic, fanatical; fanatic
7Latinfānāticustemple
8Latin-aticusUsed to form adjectives indicating a relation to...
9Latin-ātused
10Proto-Italic-ātos
11Proto-Indo-European-éh₂tosForms adjectives from nouns, indicating the possession of a thing or a quality

via Vietnamese vùng

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vietnamesevùngregion, area
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -éh₂tos