Where does “cơm tấm” come from?

cơm tấm (Vietnamese) comes from Vietnamese tắm, from Chinese 心, from Proto-Mon-Khmer səm.

cơm tấm (Vietnamese): cooked broken rice

Definitions

  1. cooked broken rice

Ancestry of “cơm tấm”, step by step

cơm tấm traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Vietnamese tắm

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vietnamesetắmto wash a body, usually your own; to bathe, to...
2Chinese心heart, mind
3Proto-Mon-Khmersəm—

via Vietnamese cơm

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vietnamesecơmcooked non-glutinous rice; a rice meal; meat;...
2Proto-Vietickəːmcooked rice
Every word from Proto-Mon-Khmer səm →Every word from Chinese 心 →Every word from Vietnamese tắm →
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