Where does “dấu phẩy” come from?

dấu phẩy (Vietnamese) comes from Vietnamese phẩy, from Vietnamese vậy, from Proto-Vietic valʔ — skirt.

dấu phẩy (Vietnamese): a comma

Definitions

  1. a comma

Ancestry of “dấu phẩy”, step by step

dấu phẩy traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Vietnamese phẩy

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vietnamesephẩyto gently fan (something) off; to whisk (off, away); to flick (away); to flap
2Vietnamesevậyso, thus; intensifying sentence-final particle
3Proto-Vieticvalʔskirt

via Vietnamese dấu

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vietnamesedấumark, sign; diacritic; tone
2Proto-Vietick-toːʔtrace, footprint
Every word from Proto-Vietic valʔ →