Where does “chửi rủa” come from?
chửi rủa (Vietnamese) comes from Vietnamese rửa, from French ajourer, from French ajour, from French à, from English avie, from French envie, from Latin invidia, from Latin invidus — in.
chửi rủa (Vietnamese): to curse at; to revile; to insult
Definitions
- to curse at; to revile; to insult
Ancestry of “chửi rủa”, step by step
chửi rủa traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Vietnamese rửa
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vietnamese | rửa | to wash something non-fabric and non-rice |
| 2 | French | ajourer | to perforate |
| 3 | French | ajour | a slit that lets in daylight |
| 4 | French | à | to; on the, to; at |
| 5 | English | avie | emulously |
| 6 | French | envie | desire, lust, urge; appetite, craving; envy |
| 7 | Latin | invidia | envy, grudge, jealousy, prejudice, spite; an... |
| 8 | Latin | invidus | envious; hostile, inimical |
| 9 | Latin | invideo | I look askance or maliciously at, cast an evil... |
| 10 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 11 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 12 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 13 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 14 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |