Where does “lạnh ngắt” come from?

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

lạnh ngắt (Vietnamese): very cold

Definitions

  1. very cold

Ancestry of “lạnh ngắt”, step by step

lạnh ngắt traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Vietnamese Lạnh

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

via Vietnamese ngắt

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