Where does “ngủ gật” come from?

ngủ gật (Vietnamese) comes from Vietnamese ngủ, from Chinese 伍, from Chinese 亻, from Chinese 工.

ngủ gật (Vietnamese): to doze off

Definitions

  1. to doze off

Ancestry of “ngủ gật”, step by step

ngủ gật traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Vietnamese ngủ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vietnamesengủto sleep
2Chinese伍—
3Chinese亻—
4Chinese工—

via Proto-Albanian gat-

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Albaniangat-—
2Proto-Indo-Europeangʷem-to step
Every word from Chinese 工 →Every word from Chinese 亻 →Every word from Chinese 伍 →