Where does “bún mọc” come from?

bún mọc (Vietnamese) comes from Vietnamese mọc, from Proto-Tai ʰmoːkᴰ, from Old Chinese 霧.

bún mọc (Vietnamese): pork ball noodle soup, a dish from Hanoi consisting of rice vermicelli noodles and pork balls as main ingredients

Definitions

  1. pork ball noodle soup, a dish from Hanoi consisting of rice vermicelli noodles and pork balls as main ingredients

Ancestry of “bún mọc”, step by step

bún mọc traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Vietnamese mọc

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vietnamesemọcto shoot out of the soil; to start to grow,...
2Proto-Taiʰmoːkᴰfog; fog; mist
3Old Chinese霧—

via Vietnamese bún

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vietnamesebúnrice vermicelli
Every word from Old Chinese 霧 →Every word from Proto-Tai ʰmoːkᴰ →Every word from Vietnamese mọc →