Where does “dầu ăn” come from?

dầu ăn (Vietnamese) comes from Vietnamese ăn, from Chinese 安.

dầu ăn (Vietnamese): cooking oil

Definitions

  1. cooking oil

Ancestry of “dầu ăn”, step by step

dầu ăn traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Vietnamese ăn

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vietnameseănto eat; Synonym of uống; to dine; to feast, to...
2Chinese安—

via Vietnamese dầu

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vietnamesedầuoil; "Dipterocarpus"
2Middle Chinese油—
Every word from Chinese 安 →Every word from Vietnamese ăn →