Where does “đen thui” come from?

đen thui (Vietnamese) comes from Middle English thui, from Chinese 焠.

đen thui (Vietnamese): very black in a bad way

Definitions

  1. very black in a bad way

Ancestry of “đen thui”, step by step

đen thui traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Middle English thui

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle Englishthui
2Chinese

via Vietnamese đen

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vietnameseđenof the color black; dark; swarthy; unlucky;...
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