Where does “giò lụa” come from?

giò lụa (Vietnamese) comes from Vietnamese lụa, from Chinese 縷.

giò lụa (Vietnamese): Vietnamese pork sausage

Definitions

  1. Vietnamese pork sausage

Ancestry of “giò lụa”, step by step

giò lụa traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Vietnamese lụa

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vietnameselụasilk fabric; unripened banana leaf or betel palm...
2Chinese縷—

via Vietnamese giò

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vietnamesegiòleg; meat paste; pork sausage
2Proto-Vietic-ɟɔːleg
Every word from Chinese 縷 →Every word from Vietnamese lụa →