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

  1. books and notebooks; books; bookish, dogmatic

Ancestry of “sách vở”, step by step

sách vở traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Vietnamese vô

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vietnamesevôto enter; to go into; to toast; emphasizing...
2Vietnamesevụseason; case, affair; specialized department...
3Chinese務—
4Sino-Tibetan*mow—

via Vietnamese sách

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vietnamesesáchbook
2Chinese冊—
Every word from Sino-Tibetan *mow →Every word from Chinese 務 →Every word from Vietnamese vụ →