Where does “ôi” come from?

ôi (Vietnamese) comes from Proto-Mon-Khmer sʔuj.

ôi (Vietnamese): tainted (meat), putrid (flesh)

Definitions

  1. tainted (meat), putrid (flesh)

Ancestry of “ôi”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Mon-Khmersʔuj
Every word from Proto-Mon-Khmer sʔuj