Where does “chúc lành” come from?

chúc lành (Vietnamese) comes from Vietnamese Lạnh, from French lin, from Latin līnum, from Proto-Italic līnom, from Proto-Indo-European līnom — flax.

chúc lành (Vietnamese): to bless

Definitions

  1. to bless

Ancestry of “chúc lành”, step by step

chúc lành traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Vietnamese Lạnh

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1VietnameseLạnh—
2Frenchlinlinen; flax
3Latinlīnumflax
4Proto-Italiclīnom—
5Proto-Indo-Europeanlīnomflax

via Vietnamese chúc

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vietnamesechúcto wish; to lean downward, to incline downward
Every word from Proto-Indo-European līnom →Every word from Proto-Italic līnom →Every word from Latin līnum →