Where does “bốn mắt” come from?

bốn mắt (Vietnamese) comes from Vietnamese mắt, from Proto-Vietic mat, from Proto-Mon-Khmer mat — eye.

bốn mắt (Vietnamese): bespectacled; four-eyed

Definitions

  1. bespectacled; four-eyed

Ancestry of “bốn mắt”, step by step

bốn mắt traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Vietnamese mắt

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vietnamesemắteye
2Proto-Vieticmateye
3Proto-Mon-Khmermateye

via Vietnamese bốn

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vietnamesebốnfour
2Proto-Vieticpoːnʔfour
3Proto-Mon-Khmerpunʔfour
Every word from Proto-Mon-Khmer mat →