Where does “cà vẹo” come from?

cà vẹo (Vietnamese) comes from Vietnamese vẹo, from Malay ribu, from Proto-Malayic *ribu, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ʀibu — thousand.

cà vẹo (Vietnamese): having a limping or lopsided gait

Definitions

  1. having a limping or lopsided gait

Ancestry of “cà vẹo”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vietnamesevẹoa hundred thousand
2Malayributhousand; million
3Proto-Malayic*ribu—
4Proto-Malayo-Polynesian*ʀibuthousand
Every word from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ʀibu →