Where does “không ai” come from?

không ai (Vietnamese) comes from Vietnamese ái, from English Ai, from English aight, from English all right — Good; in acceptable, if not excellent condition;...

không ai (Vietnamese): no one, nobody

Definitions

  1. no one, nobody

Ancestry of “không ai”, step by step

không ai traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Vietnamese ái

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vietnameseáito love; love; homosexual; gay
2EnglishAi—
3EnglishaightContraction of all right; Okay; average; nothing...
4Englishall rightGood; in acceptable, if not excellent condition;...

via Vietnamese không

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vietnamesekhôngnot; idly, without doing anything; not have; to...
2Chinese空empty, hollow
3Proto-Sino-Tibetan(g/k)uŋhole; orifice; hole; orifice; inner part
Every word from English all right →Every word from English aight →Every word from English Ai →