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Where does “rỉ” come from?

rỉ (Vietnamese) comes from Proto-Mon-Khmer cr(ii)h — rust.

rỉ (Vietnamese): to be rusty, to get rusty, to rust; to leak, to...

Definitions

  1. to be rusty, to get rusty, to rust; to leak, to...

Ancestry of “rỉ”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Mon-Khmercr(ii)hrust
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