Where does “đơm đặt” come from?

đơm đặt (Vietnamese) comes from Vietnamese đặt, from Proto-Vietic dac ~ tac.

đơm đặt (Vietnamese): to fabricate (stories with the intent of harming someone's reputation)

Definitions

  1. to fabricate (stories with the intent of harming someone's reputation)

Ancestry of “đơm đặt”, step by step

đơm đặt traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Vietnamese đặt

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vietnameseđặtto place; to put; to lay; to commission; to order
2Proto-Vieticdac ~ tac

via Vietnamese đóm

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vietnameseđómfirefly
Every word from Proto-Vietic dac ~ tac