Where does “mát mặt” come from?
mát mặt (Vietnamese) comes from Vietnamese mát, from Proto-Vietic t-maːc.
mát mặt (Vietnamese): well off; contented
Ancestry of “mát mặt”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Vietnamese | mát | cool; cray-cray |
| 2 | Proto-Vietic | t-maːc | — |