Where does “rảnh rỗi sinh nông nổi” come from?

rảnh rỗi sinh nông nổi (Vietnamese) comes from Vietnamese nông nổi, from Vietnamese nóng, from Chinese 農, from English Sino-Tibetan, from English Tibetan, from English -an, from Italian -ana, from Spanish -ana.

rảnh rỗi sinh nông nổi (Vietnamese): if people have nothing better to do, they'll do stupid or harmful things

Definitions

  1. if people have nothing better to do, they'll do stupid or harmful things

Ancestry of “rảnh rỗi sinh nông nổi”, step by step

rảnh rỗi sinh nông nổi traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.

via Vietnamese nông nổi

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vietnamesenông nổishallow; superficial
2Vietnamesenónghot; hot-tempered; quick-tempered; irritable;...
3Chinese
4EnglishSino-TibetanOf, or relating to, both China and Tibet; Of the...
5EnglishTibetanPertaining to Tibet, the Tibetan people, culture,...
6English-anOf or pertaining to;
7Italian-ana-an, -y
8Spanish-anafeminine singular of -ano
9Latin-anainflection of -ānus: ## nominative/vocative...
10Latin-anusOf or pertaining to; -ian
11Latin-umnominative neuter singular of -us; accusative...
12Proto-Italic*-om
13Proto-Indo-European*-oHom

via Vietnamese rảnh rỗi

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vietnameserảnh rỗifree; unoccupied generally speaking
2VietnameserốiShort for con rối; tangled; ravelled; entangled;...
3Proto-Vieticp-rɔːj

via Vietnamese sinh

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vietnamesesinhto produce, yield; to give birth
Every word from Proto-Indo-European *-oHomEvery word from Latin -anaEvery word from English -an
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