Where does “chân đăm đá chân chiêu” come from?

chân đăm đá chân chiêu (Vietnamese) comes from Vietnamese đá, from Chinese 肚, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan l-tjwa — mouth; beak; food; stomach; mouth, beak, food,...

chân đăm đá chân chiêu (Vietnamese): walking very unstably; drunk as a lord

Definitions

  1. walking very unstably; drunk as a lord

Ancestry of “chân đăm đá chân chiêu”, step by step

chân đăm đá chân chiêu traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.

via Vietnamese đá

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vietnameseđárock, stone; ice as used for consumption or...
2Chinese
3Proto-Sino-Tibetanl-tjwamouth; beak; food; stomach; mouth, beak, food,...

via Vietnamese đăm

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vietnameseđămright
2Proto-Vieticɗamfive
3Proto-Mon-Khmerp(ɗ)am

via Vietnamese chân

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vietnamesechâna foot; a leg; the lowest circumscribing area
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