Where does “tăng giá” come from?
tăng giá (Vietnamese) comes from Vietnamese tăng, from English tangent, from Latin tangentem, from Latin tangens, from Latin tangō, from Proto-Italic *tangō, from Proto-Indo-European denḱ- — to bite.
tăng giá (Vietnamese): to increase in price
Definitions
- to increase in price
Ancestry of “tăng giá”, step by step
tăng giá traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Vietnamese tăng
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vietnamese | tăng | to increase; monk |
| 2 | English | tangent | A straight line touching a curve at a single... |
| 3 | Latin | tangentem | accusative masculine singular of tangēns;... |
| 4 | Latin | tangens | touching, grasping; reaching, arriving at;... |
| 5 | Latin | tangō | to touch, grasp |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | *tangō | — |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | denḱ- | to bite |