Where does “xế” come from?
xế (Vietnamese) comes from French cé, from Spanish éste, from Latin iste, from Latin hāc, from Latin hīc, from Latin heic, from Latin hic, from Proto-Italic hek(e) — resin.
xế (Vietnamese): wheeled vehicle; to be sinking; to be on the...
Definitions
- wheeled vehicle; to be sinking; to be on the...
Ancestry of “xế”, step by step
xế traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.
via French cé
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | cé | The name of the Latin-script letter C |
| 2 | Spanish | éste | this one |
| 3 | Latin | iste | that near you; those in the plural |
| 4 | Latin | hāc | this way; these; in this place (or way) |
| 5 | Latin | hīc | this; these in the plural |
| 6 | Latin | heic | — |
| 7 | Latin | hic | this; these in the plural |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | hek(e) | — |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | gʰi-ḱe | this, here |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 11 | Middle English | kyt | — |
| 12 | German | kitt | putty certain kinds of cement used for fixing e.g. window panes |
| 13 | Old High German | kuti | — |
| 14 | Proto-West Germanic | kwidu | gum, resin |
| 15 | Proto-Germanic | kweduz | resin |
via Vietnamese rửa
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vietnamese | rửa | to wash something non-fabric and non-rice |
| 2 | French | ajourer | to perforate |
| 3 | French | ajour | a slit that lets in daylight |
| 4 | French | à | to; on the, to; at |
| 5 | English | avie | emulously |
| 6 | French | envie | desire, lust, urge; appetite, craving; envy |
| 7 | Latin | invidia | envy, grudge, jealousy, prejudice, spite; an... |
| 8 | Latin | invidus | envious; hostile, inimical |
| 9 | Latin | invideo | I look askance or maliciously at, cast an evil... |
| 10 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 11 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 12 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 13 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 14 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |
via Middle Chinese 車
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Middle Chinese | 車 | cart, vehicle |