Where does “mưa tuyết” come from?

mưa tuyết (Vietnamese) comes from Vietnamese mưa, from Proto-Vietic k-maː, from Proto-Mon-Khmer gmaʔ.

mưa tuyết (Vietnamese): freezing rain

Definitions

  1. freezing rain

Ancestry of “mưa tuyết”, step by step

mưa tuyết traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Vietnamese mưa

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vietnamesemưarain; to rain
2Proto-Vietick-maːrain
3Proto-Mon-Khmergmaʔ—

via Vietnamese Tuyết

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1VietnameseTuyết—
2Middle Chinese雪—
Every word from Proto-Mon-Khmer gmaʔ →