Where does “sau cánh gà” come from?
sau cánh gà (Vietnamese) comes from Vietnamese cánh gà, from Vietnamese gà, from French gaz, from Dutch gas, from Middle Dutch gasse, from Middle High German gazze, from Old High German gazza, from Proto-West Germanic *gatwā.
sau cánh gà (Vietnamese): behind the scenes
Definitions
- behind the scenes
Ancestry of “sau cánh gà”, step by step
sau cánh gà traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Vietnamese cánh gà
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vietnamese | cánh gà | chicken wing |
| 2 | Vietnamese | gà | a chicken; inexperienced or unskilled; to up the... |
| 3 | French | gaz | gas; flatulence |
| 4 | Dutch | gas | gas; liquefied petroleum gas; unpaved street |
| 5 | Middle Dutch | gasse | unpaved street |
| 6 | Middle High German | gazze | — |
| 7 | Old High German | gazza | lane |
| 8 | Proto-West Germanic | *gatwā | — |
| 9 | Proto-Germanic | gatwǭ | street, passage |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | gʰodweh₂ | — |
via Vietnamese sâu
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vietnamese | sâu | deep; deeply; caterpillar |
| 2 | Urdu | سو | hundred |
| 3 | Sanskrit | शत | hundred, used with numerals thus; any very large... |
| 4 | Sanskrit | वत्सर | year |
| 5 | Sanskrit | वत्स | a calf; the young of any animal, offspring,... |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-Iranian | watsás | yearling calf |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | wots-ó-s | — |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | wétos | year |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | wet- | year; year-old |