Where does “mặt trời” come from?

mặt trời (Vietnamese) comes from Vietnamese Mặt Trời, from Vietnamese trời, from Proto-Vietic b-ləːj, from Proto-Mon-Khmer briiʔ — sky; rain; forest.

mặt trời (Vietnamese): Alternative letter-case form of Mặt Trời

Definitions

  1. Alternative letter-case form of Mặt Trời

Ancestry of “mặt trời”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1VietnameseMặt TrờiSun
2Vietnamesetrờithe sky; weather; a generic deification of the...
3Proto-Vieticb-ləːjsky
4Proto-Mon-Khmerbriiʔsky; rain; forest
Every word from Proto-Mon-Khmer briiʔ →Every word from Proto-Vietic b-ləːj →Every word from Vietnamese trời →