Where does “mùa vụ” come from?

mùa vụ (Vietnamese) comes from Vietnamese vụ, from Chinese 務, from Sino-Tibetan *mow.

mùa vụ (Vietnamese): crop period (time period that elapsed for the instant of the sowing of the crop to the instant of its harvesting)

Definitions

  1. crop period (time period that elapsed for the instant of the sowing of the crop to the instant of its harvesting)

Ancestry of “mùa vụ”, step by step

mùa vụ traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Vietnamese vụ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vietnamesevụseason; case, affair; specialized department...
2Chinese務—
3Sino-Tibetan*mow—

via Vietnamese mưa

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vietnamesemưarain; to rain
2Proto-Vietick-maːrain
3Proto-Mon-Khmergmaʔ—
Every word from Sino-Tibetan *mow →