Where does “héo hắt” come from?

héo hắt (Vietnamese) comes from Vietnamese hắt, from French âche, from Middle French ache, from Old French ache, from Latin apium, from Latin Apis, from Ancient Greek Ἄπις, from Coptic ϩⲁⲡⲉ — the god Apis.

héo hắt (Vietnamese): to fade away; to disappear; to die away

Definitions

  1. to fade away; to disappear; to die away

Ancestry of “héo hắt”, step by step

héo hắt traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Vietnamese hắt

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vietnamesehắtto throw away
2Frenchâchecelery plant
3Middle Frenchache
4Old Frenchache
5Latinapiumparsley; celery; genitive plural of apis
6LatinApisA seaport town of Egypt situated at the borders with Marmarica
7Ancient GreekἌπις
8Copticϩⲁⲡⲉthe Apis bull, a bull worshipped as a herald of the gods (first Ptah, then Osiris, then Atum)
9Egyptianḥpthe god Apis

via Vietnamese héo

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vietnamesehéoto wither
2Proto-Vietichɛːwʔ
Every word from Egyptian ḥpEvery word from Coptic ϩⲁⲡⲉEvery word from Ancient Greek Ἄπις
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