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Where does “hoa hậu thế giới” come from?

hoa hậu thế giới (Vietnamese) comes from Vietnamese hoa hậu, from Chinese 后, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *mV-qow.

hoa hậu thế giới (Vietnamese): Miss Earth

Definitions

  1. Miss Earth

Ancestry of “hoa hậu thế giới”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vietnamesehoa hậuMiss
2Chinese后—
3Proto-Sino-Tibetan*mV-qow—
Every word from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *mV-qow →