Where does “phê cỏ” come from?
phê cỏ (Vietnamese) comes from Vietnamese phê, from French effet, from Old French effect, from Latin effectus, from Latin efficiō, from Latin ex, from Latin commūnicō, from Latin commūnis — to bend; curve; arch; vault; to bow, bend, arch,...
phê cỏ (Vietnamese): to be high after smoking weed
Definitions
- to be high after smoking weed
Ancestry of “phê cỏ”, step by step
phê cỏ traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Vietnamese phê
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vietnamese | phê | very satisfied (especially by drugs); elated; ecstatic; high |
| 2 | French | effet | effect; spin, bend, curl |
| 3 | Old French | effect | effect; judgment; decree |
| 4 | Latin | effectus | made out, worked out, completed, finished,... |
| 5 | Latin | efficiō | to make out or work out; effect, execute, complete, accomplish, make, form, compose |
| 6 | Latin | ex | A name of the letter "X"; out of, from |
| 7 | Latin | commūnicō | to impart, share |
| 8 | Latin | commūnis | common, commonplace, ordinary, general, universal, shared, shared alike, of both sides, belonging to two or more together |
| 9 | Old Latin | com(m)oinis | — |
| 10 | Proto-Italic | kommoinis | common |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱom-moy-ni- | held in common |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱóm | beside, near, by, with |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 14 | Middle English | kyt | — |
| 15 | German | kitt | putty certain kinds of cement used for fixing e.g. window panes |
| 16 | Old High German | kuti | — |
| 17 | Proto-West Germanic | kwidu | gum, resin |
| 18 | Proto-Germanic | kweduz | resin |
| 19 | Proto-Indo-European | gʷet- | resin, gum; to say, speak |
| 20 | Proto-Indo-European | gū- | to bend; curve; arch; vault; to bow, bend, arch,... |
via Vietnamese có
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vietnamese | có | to have; do; does; do |
| 2 | French | commission | commission fee charged by an agent or broker for carrying out a transaction |
| 3 | Russian | коми́ссия | chores |
| 4 | Latin | commissio | commission |
| 5 | Latin | committo | I commit; I begin; I carry on |
| 6 | Latin | cōn- | Used in compounds to indicate a being or bringing together of several objects |
| 7 | Latin | -dō | to put |
| 8 | Proto-Germanic | -dô | — |
| 9 | Sicilian | di | Used to indicate possession, after the thing owned and before the owner; of; ’s |
| 10 | Latin | dē | of; concerning; about |
| 11 | Latin | post | behind; after, since, besides, except; behind,... |
| 12 | Latin | poste | ablative singular of postis |
| 13 | Proto-Italic | posti | behind, after |
| 14 | Proto-Indo-European | pósti | after |
| 15 | Proto-Indo-European | pós | afterwards, post; by, at |