Where does “thọc gậy bánh xe” come from?
thọc gậy bánh xe (Vietnamese) comes from Vietnamese bánh xe, from Vietnamese xế, from Vietnamese rửa, from French ajourer, from French ajour, from French à, from English avie, from French envie — in.
thọc gậy bánh xe (Vietnamese): to put a spoke in someone's wheel; to throw a spanner in the works
Definitions
- to put a spoke in someone's wheel; to throw a spanner in the works
Ancestry of “thọc gậy bánh xe”, step by step
thọc gậy bánh xe traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.
via Vietnamese bánh xe
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vietnamese | bánh xe | wheel |
| 2 | Vietnamese | xế | wheeled vehicle; to be sinking; to be on the... |
| 3 | Vietnamese | rửa | to wash something non-fabric and non-rice |
| 4 | French | ajourer | to perforate |
| 5 | French | ajour | a slit that lets in daylight |
| 6 | French | à | to; on the, to; at |
| 7 | English | avie | emulously |
| 8 | French | envie | desire, lust, urge; appetite, craving; envy |
| 9 | Latin | invidia | envy, grudge, jealousy, prejudice, spite; an... |
| 10 | Latin | invidus | envious; hostile, inimical |
| 11 | Latin | invideo | I look askance or maliciously at, cast an evil... |
| 12 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 13 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 14 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 15 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 16 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |
via Vietnamese gậy
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vietnamese | gậy | stick, cane, staff |
| 2 | English | Gay | originally a nickname for a cheerful or lively person |
| 3 | English | Queen | A title used before the personal name of a queen |
| 4 | Middle English | quene | A queen; Any powerful woman noble; A female... |
| 5 | Old English | cwene | a woman; inflection of cwēn: ##... |
| 6 | Old English | cwēn | queen; woman, wife, queen |
| 7 | Proto-West Germanic | kwāni | woman, wife |
| 8 | Proto-Germanic | kwēniz | wife |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | gʷḗn | woman |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | gʷen- | woman |
via Vietnamese thọc
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vietnamese | thọc | to thrust, to put into |