Where does “nạn cẩy” come from?

nạn cẩy (Tày) comes from Vietnamese nạn, from Chinese 難, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan na-n/t — ill, pain, difficult, evil spirit; sick; ill;...

nạn cẩy (Tày): mouse deer

Definitions

  1. mouse deer

Ancestry of “nạn cẩy”, step by step

nạn cẩy traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Vietnamese nạn

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vietnamesenạnaccident, danger, calamity, disaster,...
2Chinese難bad, unpleasant
3Proto-Sino-Tibetanna-n/till, pain, difficult, evil spirit; sick; ill;...

via Tày cẩy

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tàycẩy—
Every word from Proto-Sino-Tibetan na-n/t →Every word from Chinese 難 →Every word from Vietnamese nạn →