Where does “ná thở” come from?

ná thở (Vietnamese) comes from Vietnamese ná, from Proto-Vietic s-naːʔ, from Proto-Mon-Khmer snaʔ — crossbow.

ná thở (Vietnamese): to be suffocated, to be unable to breathe

Definitions

  1. to be suffocated, to be unable to breathe

Ancestry of “ná thở”, step by step

ná thở traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Vietnamese ná

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1VietnamesenáSynonym of nỏ; slingshot
2Proto-Vietics-naːʔcrossbow
3Proto-Mon-Khmersnaʔcrossbow

via Vietnamese thở

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vietnamesethởto breathe out; to exhale; to breathe
2Proto-Vietictʰəhto breathe
Every word from Proto-Mon-Khmer snaʔ →Every word from Proto-Vietic s-naːʔ →Every word from Vietnamese ná →