Where does “sự việc” come from?

sự việc (Vietnamese) comes from Vietnamese sự, from Chinese 瓷.

sự việc (Vietnamese): things; facts

Definitions

  1. things; facts

Ancestry of “sự việc”, step by step

sự việc traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Vietnamese sự

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vietnamesesựdeed, act, occurrence
2Chinese瓷—

via Vietnamese việc

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vietnameseviệcjob, work, business; thing, matter, affair
Every word from Chinese 瓷 →Every word from Vietnamese sự →