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Where does “Bùi” come from?

Bùi (Vietnamese) comes from Proto-Vietic buːlʔ, from Proto-Mon-Khmer tbul.

Bùi (Vietnamese): dust; dusty; bush, shrub, clump

Definitions

  1. dust; dusty; bush, shrub, clump

Ancestry of “Bùi”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Vieticbuːlʔ—
2Proto-Mon-Khmertbul—
Every word from Proto-Mon-Khmer tbul →