Where does “hạt dẻ” come from?

hạt dẻ (Vietnamese) comes from Vietnamese hạt, from Chinese 核.

hạt dẻ (Vietnamese): chestnut

Definitions

  1. chestnut

Ancestry of “hạt dẻ”, step by step

hạt dẻ traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Vietnamese hạt

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vietnamesehạta small hard piece; a seed, a grain, a nut, etc;...
2Chinese核—

via Vietnamese dẻ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vietnamesedẻchestnut
2Proto-Vietic-tɛhchestnut
Every word from Chinese 核 →Every word from Vietnamese hạt →