Where does “mạnh dạn” come from?

mạnh dạn (Vietnamese) comes from Vietnamese Mạnh, from Vietnamese 孟, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan maŋ, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *(s/r)-ma(ŋ/k).

mạnh dạn (Vietnamese): bold; brave

Definitions

  1. bold; brave

Ancestry of “mạnh dạn”, step by step

mạnh dạn traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Vietnamese Mạnh

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1VietnameseMạnh—
2Vietnamese孟—
3Proto-Sino-Tibetanmaŋbig; old; elder
4Proto-Sino-Tibetan*(s/r)-ma(ŋ/k)—

via Proto-Indo-European dan-

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Indo-Europeandan-—
Every word from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *(s/r)-ma(ŋ/k) →Every word from Proto-Sino-Tibetan maŋ →Every word from Vietnamese 孟 →