Where does “tàu thuỷ” come from?

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

tàu thuỷ (Vietnamese): a ship

Definitions

  1. a ship

Ancestry of “tàu thuỷ”, step by step

tàu thuỷ 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 thuỷ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vietnamesethuỷwater; Water, one of the Wu Xing
2Middle Chinese水—
3Proto-Sino-Tibetanlwi(j)flow; stream
Every word from Proto-Mon-Khmer piʔ →Every word from Proto-Vietic paː →Every word from Vietnamese ba →