Where does “phê” come from?
phê (Vietnamese) comes from French effet, from Old French effect, from Latin effectus, from Latin efficiō, from Latin ex, from Latin commūnicō, from Latin commūnis, from Old Latin com(m)oinis — resin.
phê (Vietnamese): very satisfied (especially by drugs); elated; ecstatic; high
Definitions
- very satisfied (especially by drugs); elated; ecstatic; high
Ancestry of “phê”, step by step
phê traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via French effet
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | effet | effect; spin, bend, curl |
| 2 | Old French | effect | effect; judgment; decree |
| 3 | Latin | effectus | made out, worked out, completed, finished,... |
| 4 | Latin | efficiō | to make out or work out; effect, execute, complete, accomplish, make, form, compose |
| 5 | Latin | ex | A name of the letter "X"; out of, from |
| 6 | Latin | commūnicō | to impart, share |
| 7 | Latin | commūnis | common, commonplace, ordinary, general, universal, shared, shared alike, of both sides, belonging to two or more together |
| 8 | Old Latin | com(m)oinis | — |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | kommoinis | common |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱom-moy-ni- | held in common |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱóm | beside, near, by, with |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 13 | Middle English | kyt | — |
| 14 | German | kitt | putty certain kinds of cement used for fixing e.g. window panes |
| 15 | Old High German | kuti | — |
| 16 | Proto-West Germanic | kwidu | gum, resin |
| 17 | Proto-Germanic | kweduz | resin |