Where does “làm khó” come from?

làm khó (Vietnamese) comes from Vietnamese làm, from French lamé, from French -é, from Middle French -é, from Old French -é, from Latin -a, from Proto-Italic -ā, from Proto-Indo-European -éh₂.

làm khó (Vietnamese): to make something more difficult

Definitions

  1. to make something more difficult

Ancestry of “làm khó”, step by step

làm khó traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Vietnamese làm

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vietnameselàmto do; to make; to work
2Frenchlamépast participle of lamer
3French-épast participle root verb suffix of regular -er...
4Middle French-épast participle root verb suffix of regular; -ed, -en, -n
5Old French-éused to form past participles of regular -er...
6Latin-asuffixed to the roots of verbs, forms agent...
7Proto-Italic-āForms masculine agent nouns from prefixed or compounded bases
8Proto-Indo-European-éh₂—

via Vietnamese khó

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vietnamesekhódifficult; tough; hard to get along with; hard to...
2Chinese庫—
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -éh₂ →Every word from Latin -a →Every word from French -é →