Where does “dậy thì” come from?

dậy thì (Vietnamese) comes from Vietnamese thì, from Chinese 時, from Old Chinese 之.

dậy thì (Vietnamese): to hit puberty

Definitions

  1. to hit puberty

Ancestry of “dậy thì”, step by step

dậy thì traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Vietnamese thì

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1VietnamesethìDated form of thời; the prime time in terms of...
2Chinese時—
3Old Chinese之—

via Vietnamese dậy

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vietnamesedậyto wake up; to rise; Eye dialect spelling of vậy,...
2Proto-Vieticjərʔ—
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