Where does “mẹ” come from?

mẹ (Vietnamese) comes from Chinese 迷.

mẹ (Vietnamese): a mother; I/me, your mother; you, my mother

Definitions

  1. a mother; I/me, your mother; you, my mother

Ancestry of “mẹ”, step by step

mẹ traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.

via Chinese 迷

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Chinese迷—

via Proto-Vietic ɓɛh

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1Proto-Vieticɓɛh—

via Chinese 麻

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Chinese麻hemp

Words derived from “mẹ”

Every word from Chinese 迷 →