Where does “thả cá nhỏ, bắt cá lớn” come from?
thả cá nhỏ, bắt cá lớn (Vietnamese) comes from Vietnamese lớn, from French galon, from Latin galum, from Vulgar Latin *galla, from Gaulish gallā, from Proto-Germanic gallǭ, from Proto-Indo-European ǵʰelh₃- — to flourish; green, yellow.
thả cá nhỏ, bắt cá lớn (Vietnamese): release a small fish to catch a big fish
Definitions
- release a small fish to catch a big fish
Ancestry of “thả cá nhỏ, bắt cá lớn”, step by step
thả cá nhỏ, bắt cá lớn traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.
via Vietnamese lớn
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vietnamese | lớn | big; large; grown-up; adult; great; grand |
| 2 | French | galon | braid; stripe |
| 3 | Latin | galum | — |
| 4 | Vulgar Latin | *galla | — |
| 5 | Gaulish | gallā | vessel |
| 6 | Proto-Germanic | gallǭ | gall, bile |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | ǵʰelh₃- | to flourish; green, yellow |