Where does “trượt băng” come from?

trượt băng (Vietnamese) comes from Vietnamese băng, from French bande, from French là, from Italian là, from Spanish la, from Portuguese lá, from German a, from German a-Moll — ox; aleph; alef.

trượt băng (Vietnamese): to ice skate

Definitions

  1. to ice skate

Ancestry of “trượt băng”, step by step

trượt băng traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Vietnamese băng

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vietnamesebăngnon-hail ice; band; strip; tape
2Frenchbandeband, strip; stripe; strip
3Frenchthere; here, present
4Italianthere
5Spanishlafeminine singular definite article; the
6Portuguesethere; used with an adverb phrase to indicate...
7GermanaAlternative form of A; Abbreviation of a-Moll;...
8Germana-MollA-minor
9Hungarianathe; this; that
10Frenchàto; on the, to; at
11Middle Frenchato; towards; third-person singular present...
12Old Frenchato; towards; belonging to
13LatinA
14Etruscan𐌀and, also
15Ancient Greekᾱ̔
16Phoenician𐤀ox; aleph; alef

via Vietnamese trượt

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vietnamesetrượtto slip
Every word from Phoenician 𐤀