Where does “ở đâu” come from?

ở đâu (Vietnamese) comes from Vietnamese ở, from Proto-Vietic ʔəh — to stay.

ở đâu (Vietnamese): where (is it being/doing/happening?)

Definitions

  1. where (is it being/doing/happening?)

Ancestry of “ở đâu”, step by step

ở đâu traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Vietnamese ở

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vietnameseởat, in; to be, to live, to stay, to remain
2Proto-Vieticʔəhto stay

via Vietnamese đâu

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vietnameseđâuwhere
Every word from Proto-Vietic ʔəh →