Where does “xe điện đụng” come from?
xe điện đụng (Vietnamese) comes from Vietnamese xe điện, from Vietnamese xế, from Vietnamese rửa, from French ajourer, from French ajour, from French à, from English avie, from French envie — in.
xe điện đụng (Vietnamese): bumper car
Definitions
- bumper car
Ancestry of “xe điện đụng”, step by step
xe điện đụng traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Vietnamese xe điện
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vietnamese | xe điện | an electric train |
| 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 |