Where does “đẹp mắt” come from?

đẹp mắt (Vietnamese) comes from Vietnamese mắt, from Proto-Vietic mat, from Proto-Mon-Khmer mat — eye.

đẹp mắt (Vietnamese): beautiful; pretty; pleasing to the senses

Definitions

  1. beautiful; pretty; pleasing to the senses

Ancestry of “đẹp mắt”, step by step

đẹp mắt traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Vietnamese mắt

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vietnamesemắteye
2Proto-Vieticmateye
3Proto-Mon-Khmermateye

via Vietnamese đẹp

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vietnameseđẹppleasant to look at; good-looking, beautiful,...
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