Where does “nhàn rỗi” come from?

nhàn rỗi (Vietnamese) comes from Vietnamese rối, from Proto-Vietic p-rɔːj.

nhàn rỗi (Vietnamese): free; idle; leisured

Definitions

  1. free; idle; leisured

Ancestry of “nhàn rỗi”, step by step

nhàn rỗi traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Vietnamese rối

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1VietnameserốiShort for con rối; tangled; ravelled; entangled;...
2Proto-Vieticp-rɔːj—

via Vietnamese nhàn

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vietnamesenhànleisurely, idle, free
Every word from Proto-Vietic p-rɔːj →Every word from Vietnamese rối →