Where does “ngõ cụt” come from?

ngõ cụt (Vietnamese) comes from Vietnamese cụt, from Proto-Mon-Khmer sguut.

ngõ cụt (Vietnamese): dead end street or passageway; cul-de-sac; blind alley

Definitions

  1. dead end street or passageway; cul-de-sac; blind alley

Ancestry of “ngõ cụt”, step by step

ngõ cụt traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Vietnamese cụt

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vietnamesecụtcut off; shortened; being a frustum
2Proto-Mon-Khmersguut—

via Vietnamese ngõ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vietnamesengõlane; alley; bystreet
2Vietnamese午—
Every word from Proto-Mon-Khmer sguut →