Where does “chân đất” come from?

chân đất (Vietnamese) comes from Vietnamese đất, from Proto-Vietic tət.

chân đất (Vietnamese): barefoot; wearing nothing on the feet

Definitions

  1. barefoot; wearing nothing on the feet

Ancestry of “chân đất”, step by step

chân đất traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Vietnamese đất

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vietnameseđấtearth; soil; dirt; land
2Proto-Vietictət

via Vietnamese chân

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