Where does “tàu cánh ngầm” come from?

tàu cánh ngầm (Vietnamese) comes from Vietnamese Tàu, from Vietnamese Ba Tàu, from Vietnamese ba, from Proto-Vietic paː, from Proto-Mon-Khmer piʔ.

tàu cánh ngầm (Vietnamese): hydrofoil

Definitions

  1. hydrofoil

Ancestry of “tàu cánh ngầm”, step by step

tàu cánh ngầm traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Vietnamese Tàu

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1VietnameseTàuChinese; Chink
2VietnameseBa TàuOf or pertaining to ethnic Chinese people in...
3Vietnamesebafather; three; secondborn
4Proto-Vieticpaːthree
5Proto-Mon-Khmerpiʔ—

via Vietnamese cánh ngầm

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vietnamesecánh ngầm—
Every word from Proto-Mon-Khmer piʔ →Every word from Proto-Vietic paː →Every word from Vietnamese ba →