Where does “sậy” come from?

sậy (Vietnamese) comes from Proto-Vietic p-riː — be drunk.

sậy (Vietnamese): reed

Definitions

  1. reed

Ancestry of “sậy”, step by step

sậy traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Proto-Vietic p-riː

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Vieticp-riːbe drunk

via Proto-Vietic p-reːʔ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Vieticp-reːʔ

Words derived from “sậy

Every word from Proto-Vietic p-riː