Where does “chuyển dạ” come from?

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

chuyển dạ (Vietnamese): to go into labor, to have the first pains signaling the start of childbirth

Definitions

  1. to go into labor, to have the first pains signaling the start of childbirth

Ancestry of “chuyển dạ”, step by step

chuyển dạ traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Vietnamese đá

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

via Vietnamese chuyển

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vietnamesechuyểnto move, to transfer, to shift, to switch over,...
Every word from Proto-Sino-Tibetan l-tjwa →Every word from Chinese 肚 →Every word from Vietnamese đá →