Where does “tốt bụng” come from?
tốt bụng (Vietnamese) comes from Vietnamese bụng, from Khmer បង, from French bon, from Middle French bon, from Old French bon, from Latin bonus, from Old Latin duenos, from Proto-Italic dwenos — to show favour, revere; to fail, to lag, to be...
tốt bụng (Vietnamese): kind-hearted, good-natured
Definitions
- kind-hearted, good-natured
Ancestry of “tốt bụng”, step by step
tốt bụng traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Vietnamese bụng
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vietnamese | bụng | belly; feelings, personality |
| 2 | Khmer | បង | I, me, my; you, your; elder sibling |
| 3 | French | bon | good; right, correct; sexy, hot, smoking hot |
| 4 | Middle French | bon | good |
| 5 | Old French | bon | good |
| 6 | Latin | bonus | good, honest, brave, noble, kind, pleasant;... |
| 7 | Old Latin | duenos | Alternative form of duonus |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | dwenos | good |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | dew- | to show favour, revere; to fail, to lag, to be... |