Where does “sách vở” come from?
sách vở (Vietnamese) comes from Vietnamese vô, from Vietnamese vụ, from Chinese 務, from Sino-Tibetan *mow.
sách vở (Vietnamese): books and notebooks; books; bookish, dogmatic
Definitions
- books and notebooks; books; bookish, dogmatic
Ancestry of “sách vở”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Vietnamese | vô | to enter; to go into; to toast; emphasizing... |
| 2 | Vietnamese | vụ | season; case, affair; specialized department... |
| 3 | Chinese | 務 | — |
| 4 | Sino-Tibetan | *mow | — |