Where does “ai bảo” come from?
ai bảo (Vietnamese) comes from Vietnamese báo, from Chinese 豹, from Chinese 駁, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *prawk — to be speckled, variegated, spotted.
Ancestry of “ai bảo”, step by step
ai bảo traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Vietnamese báo
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Vietnamese | báo | a leopard; a spotted panther; a jaguar or a snow... |
| 2 | Chinese | 豹 | — |
| 3 | Chinese | 駁 | — |
| 4 | Proto-Sino-Tibetan | *prawk | to be speckled, variegated, spotted |
via Vietnamese ái
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Vietnamese | ái | to love; love; homosexual; gay |
| 2 | English | Ai | — |
| 3 | English | aight | Contraction of all right; Okay; average; nothing... |
| 4 | English | all right | Good; in acceptable, if not excellent condition;... |