Where does “làm ơn làm phước” come from?

làm ơn làm phước (Vietnamese) comes from Vietnamese làm ơn, from Vietnamese làm, from French lamé, from French -é, from Middle French -é, from Old French -é, from Latin -a, from Proto-Italic -ā.

làm ơn làm phước (Vietnamese): for God's sake; for the love of God

Definitions

  1. for God's sake; for the love of God

Ancestry of “làm ơn làm phước”, step by step

làm ơn làm phước traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Vietnamese làm ơn

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vietnameselàm ơnto do a favour; to do a good turn
2Vietnameselàmto do; to make; to work
3Frenchlamépast participle of lamer
4Frenchpast participle root verb suffix of regular -er...
5Middle Frenchpast participle root verb suffix of regular; -ed, -en, -n
6Old Frenchused to form past participles of regular -er...
7Latin-asuffixed to the roots of verbs, forms agent...
8Proto-ItalicForms masculine agent nouns from prefixed or compounded bases
9Proto-Indo-European-éh₂

via Vietnamese làm phước

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vietnameselàm phước
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -éh₂Every word from Latin -aEvery word from French