Where does “lạnh nhạt” come from?

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

lạnh nhạt (Vietnamese): cold, apathetic, indifferent

Definitions

  1. cold, apathetic, indifferent

Ancestry of “lạnh nhạt”, step by step

lạnh nhạt traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Vietnamese Lạnh

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

via Vietnamese nhạt

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vietnamesenhạttasteless or bland; bland; lame; weak; feeble;...
2Proto-Vieticm-laːctasteless
Every word from Proto-Indo-European līnom →Every word from Proto-Italic līnom →Every word from Latin līnum →