Where does “bọ chét mèo” come from?

bọ chét mèo (Vietnamese) comes from Vietnamese mèo — cat; meow.

bọ chét mèo (Vietnamese): a cat flea (of the species Ctenocephalides felis)

Definitions

  1. a cat flea (of the species Ctenocephalides felis)

Ancestry of “bọ chét mèo”, step by step

bọ chét mèo traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Vietnamese mèo

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vietnamesemèocat; meow

via Vietnamese bọ chét

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vietnamesebọ chéta flea (a parasitic insect of the order Siphonaptera)
Every word from Vietnamese mèo