Where does “mồm mép” come from?

mồm mép (Vietnamese) comes from Vietnamese mồm, from English mom, from English momma, from English mama, from Xhosa umama, from Proto-Bantu *mààmá.

mồm mép (Vietnamese): gift of the gab, ability to speak readily and glibly

Definitions

  1. gift of the gab, ability to speak readily and glibly

Ancestry of “mồm mép”, step by step

mồm mép traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Vietnamese mồm

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vietnamesemồmmouth
2Englishmommother; An adult female owner of a pet; To care...
3Englishmommamother; A voluptuous woman; One's wife or...
4EnglishmamaMother, female parent
5Xhosaumamamom, mother
6Proto-Bantu*mààmá—

via Vietnamese mép

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vietnamesemépcorner of the mouth

Words derived from “mồm mép”

Every word from Proto-Bantu *mààmá →Every word from Xhosa umama →Every word from English mama →