Where does “sẩy thai” come from?

sẩy thai (Vietnamese) comes from Vietnamese Thái, from Middle Chinese 胎.

sẩy thai (Vietnamese): to have a miscarriage

Definitions

  1. to have a miscarriage

Ancestry of “sẩy thai”, step by step

sẩy thai traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Vietnamese Thái

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1VietnameseTháiThai
2Middle Chinese胎—

via Vietnamese sậy

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vietnamesesậyreed
2Proto-Vieticp-riːbe drunk
Every word from Middle Chinese 胎 →Every word from Vietnamese Thái →