Where does “nghỉ mát” come from?

nghỉ mát (Vietnamese) comes from Vietnamese mát, from Proto-Vietic t-maːc.

nghỉ mát (Vietnamese): to go to a resort on holiday/vacation

Definitions

  1. to go to a resort on holiday/vacation

Ancestry of “nghỉ mát”, step by step

nghỉ mát traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Vietnamese mát

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vietnamesemátcool; cray-cray
2Proto-Vietict-maːc—

via Vietnamese nghỉ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vietnamesenghỉto take a break; to get to temporarily leave...
2Middle Chinese疑—
Every word from Proto-Vietic t-maːc →Every word from Vietnamese mát →