Where does “lạnh buốt” come from?

lạnh buốt (Vietnamese) comes from Vietnamese Lạnh, from French lin, from Latin līnum, from Proto-Italic līnom, from Proto-Indo-European līnom — flax.

lạnh buốt (Vietnamese): piercingly cold; freezing cold

Definitions

  1. piercingly cold; freezing cold

Ancestry of “lạnh buốt”, step by step

lạnh buốt traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Vietnamese Lạnh

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1VietnameseLạnh—
2Frenchlinlinen; flax
3Latinlīnumflax
4Proto-Italiclīnom—
5Proto-Indo-Europeanlīnomflax

via Vietnamese buốt

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vietnamesebuốtpiercing
Every word from Proto-Indo-European līnom →Every word from Proto-Italic līnom →Every word from Latin līnum →