Where does “trái tim ngón tay” come from?
trái tim ngón tay (Vietnamese) comes from Vietnamese ngón tay, from Vietnamese Tây, from Chinese 西, from English West, from Middle English west, from Old English west, from Proto-West Germanic *westr, from Proto-Germanic westrą.
trái tim ngón tay (Vietnamese): finger heart
Definitions
- finger heart
Ancestry of “trái tim ngón tay”, step by step
trái tim ngón tay traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Vietnamese ngón tay
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vietnamese | ngón tay | finger |
| 2 | Vietnamese | Tây | Alternative letter-case form of tây |
| 3 | Chinese | 西 | — |
| 4 | English | West | Any of various particular regions named for the cardinal direction in which they lie |
| 5 | Middle English | west | west; A location to the south; the south; The... |
| 6 | Old English | west | west |
| 7 | Proto-West Germanic | *westr | western, westernly |
| 8 | Proto-Germanic | westrą | west; west, westward |
| 9 | Proto-Germanic | westraz | west, western |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | wek(ʷ)speros | evening |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | we- | — |