Where does “cắt giảm” come from?

cắt giảm (Vietnamese) comes from Vietnamese cắt, from Vietnamese báo, from Chinese 豹, from Chinese 駁, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *prawk — to be speckled, variegated, spotted.

cắt giảm (Vietnamese): to cut back; to reduce (amount)

Definitions

  1. to cut back; to reduce (amount)

Ancestry of “cắt giảm”, step by step

cắt giảm traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Vietnamese cắt

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vietnamesecắtto cut; to intersect; falcon
2Vietnamesebáoa leopard; a spotted panther; a jaguar or a snow...
3Chinese豹—
4Chinese駁—
5Proto-Sino-Tibetan*prawkto be speckled, variegated, spotted

via Vietnamese giảm

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vietnamesegiảmlessen, reduce, decrease
2Proto-Vietic-jəmʔ—
Every word from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *prawk →Every word from Chinese 駁 →Every word from Chinese 豹 →