Where does “muôn tâu” come from?

muôn tâu (Vietnamese) comes from Vietnamese Tàu, from Vietnamese Ba Tàu, from Vietnamese ba, from Proto-Vietic paː, from Proto-Mon-Khmer piʔ.

muôn tâu (Vietnamese): Used at the beginning of a sentence when one reports to the emperor

Definitions

  1. Used at the beginning of a sentence when one reports to the emperor

Ancestry of “muôn tâu”, step by step

muôn tâu traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Vietnamese Tàu

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1VietnameseTàuChinese; Chink
2VietnameseBa TàuOf or pertaining to ethnic Chinese people in...
3Vietnamesebafather; three; secondborn
4Proto-Vieticpaːthree
5Proto-Mon-Khmerpiʔ—

via Vietnamese muôn

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vietnamesemuônten thousand; myriad; all; many
2Chinese萬10,000
3Proto-Sino-Tibetans-maŋ—
Every word from Proto-Mon-Khmer piʔ →