Where does “phải lòng” come from?
phải lòng (Vietnamese) comes from Vietnamese lòng, from Latin longus, from Latin -ē, from Latin dis-, from Latin calceus, from Latin calx, from Ancient Greek χάλιξ — small stone, pebble; gravel, rubble.
phải lòng (Vietnamese): to fall in love (with); to be in love (with)
Definitions
- to fall in love (with); to be in love (with)
Ancestry of “phải lòng”, step by step
phải lòng traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Vietnamese lòng
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vietnamese | lòng | intestines; the central region of a hand or foot;... |
| 2 | Latin | longus | far, long; extended, prolonged; long; tedious,... |
| 3 | Latin | -ē | ly; used to form adverbs from adjectives |
| 4 | Latin | dis- | asunder, apart, in two; reversal, removal;... |
| 5 | Latin | calceus | shoe |
| 6 | Latin | calx | limestone; chalk; the finish line |
| 7 | Ancient Greek | χάλιξ | small stone, pebble; gravel, rubble |
via Vietnamese phải
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vietnamese | phải | right; correct; obverse |
| 2 | Chinese | 派 | — |
| 3 | English | Pi | The sixteenth letter of the Classical and Modern Greek alphabets and the seventeenth in Old Greek |
| 4 | Ancient Greek | πῖ | Alternative form of πεῖ |
| 5 | Ancient Greek | πεῖ | pi, the name for the sixteenth letter Π, π of the... |
| 6 | Proto-Semitic | pay- | the mouth |