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
- Alternative letter-case form of Mặt Trời
Ancestry of “mặt trời”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Vietnamese | Mặt Trời | — |
| 2 | Vietnamese | trời | the sky; weather; a generic deification of the... |
| 3 | Proto-Vietic | b-ləːj | sky |
| 4 | Proto-Mon-Khmer | briiʔ | sky; rain; forest |