Where does “nghèo đói” come from?

nghèo đói (Vietnamese) comes from Vietnamese nghèo — poor.

nghèo đói (Vietnamese): so poor up to the point of having no food

Definitions

  1. so poor up to the point of having no food

Ancestry of “nghèo đói”, step by step

nghèo đói traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Vietnamese nghèo

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vietnamesenghèopoor

via Vietnamese đói

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vietnameseđóihungry (desirous of food)
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