Where does “bão tuyết” come from?

bão tuyết (Vietnamese) comes from Vietnamese báo, from Chinese 豹, from Chinese 駁, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *prawk — to be speckled, variegated, spotted.

bão tuyết (Vietnamese): snowstorm

Definitions

  1. snowstorm

Ancestry of “bão tuyết”, step by step

bão tuyết traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Vietnamese báo

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vietnamesebáoa leopard; a spotted panther; a jaguar or a snow...
2Chinese豹—
3Chinese駁—
4Proto-Sino-Tibetan*prawkto be speckled, variegated, spotted

via Vietnamese Tuyết

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1VietnameseTuyết—
2Middle Chinese雪—
Every word from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *prawk →Every word from Chinese 駁 →Every word from Chinese 豹 →