Where does “điện mặt trời” come from?

điện mặt trời (Vietnamese) comes from Vietnamese Mặt Trời, from Vietnamese trời, from Proto-Vietic b-ləːj, from Proto-Mon-Khmer briiʔ — sky; rain; forest.

điện mặt trời (Vietnamese): solar power

Definitions

  1. solar power

Ancestry of “điện mặt trời”, step by step

điện mặt trời traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Vietnamese Mặt Trời

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1VietnameseMặt TrờiSun
2Vietnamesetrờithe sky; weather; a generic deification of the...
3Proto-Vieticb-ləːjsky
4Proto-Mon-Khmerbriiʔsky; rain; forest

via Vietnamese điện

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vietnameseđiệnelectricity; Short for dòng điện; Clipping of...
2Chinese殿—
3Sino-Tibetan*r-t(u/i)l—
Every word from Proto-Mon-Khmer briiʔ →Every word from Proto-Vietic b-ləːj →Every word from Vietnamese trời →