Where does “cuống cuồng” come from?

cuống cuồng (Vietnamese) comes from Vietnamese cuồng, from Chinese 狂.

cuống cuồng (Vietnamese): having lost one's head due to panic

Definitions

  1. having lost one's head due to panic

Ancestry of “cuống cuồng”, step by step

cuống cuồng traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Vietnamese cuồng

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vietnamesecuồngcrazy; mad; bonkers; Short for cuồng nhiệt
2Chinese狂—

via Vietnamese cuống

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vietnamesecuốngpetiole; be in need of doing something that one...
2Proto-Vietickuoŋʔ—
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