Where does “sách báo” come from?

sách báo (Vietnamese) comes from Vietnamese báo, from Chinese 豹, from Chinese 駁, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *prawk — to be speckled, variegated, spotted.

sách báo (Vietnamese): books and newspapers; the press

Definitions

  1. books and newspapers; the press

Ancestry of “sách báo”, step by step

sách báo traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Vietnamese báo

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vietnamesebáoa leopard; a spotted panther; a jaguar or a snow...
2Chinese豹—
3Chinese駁—
4Proto-Sino-Tibetan*prawkto be speckled, variegated, spotted

via Vietnamese sách

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vietnamesesáchbook
2Chinese冊—
Every word from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *prawk →