Where does “cuống não” come from?

cuống não (Vietnamese) comes from Vietnamese não, from Chinese 腦, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan s-nəw-k — brain.

cuống não (Vietnamese): brain stem

Definitions

  1. brain stem

Ancestry of “cuống não”, step by step

cuống não traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Vietnamese não

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vietnamesenãobrain, cerebrum
2Chinese腦—
3Proto-Sino-Tibetans-nəw-kbrain

via Vietnamese cuống

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vietnamesecuốngpetiole; be in need of doing something that one...
2Proto-Vietickuoŋʔ—
Every word from Proto-Sino-Tibetan s-nəw-k →