Where does “cách quãng” come from?

cách quãng (Vietnamese) comes from Vietnamese quàng, from Chinese 廣.

cách quãng (Vietnamese): intermittent; recurrent; by intervals

Definitions

  1. intermittent; recurrent; by intervals

Ancestry of “cách quãng”, step by step

cách quãng traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Vietnamese quàng

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vietnamesequàngnonsensical, absurd; indiscriminate; to put on,...
2Chinese

via Vietnamese cách

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vietnamesecáchway, manner, fashion; grammatical case; to be...
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