Where does “tàu thuyền” come from?

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

tàu thuyền (Vietnamese): boats; ships; vessels

Definitions

  1. boats; ships; vessels

Ancestry of “tàu thuyền”, step by step

tàu thuyền 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 thuyền

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vietnamesethuyềna boat; a wooden ship
2Chinese船—
3Proto-Sino-Tibetanm-lawŋboat
Every word from Proto-Mon-Khmer piʔ →Every word from Proto-Vietic paː →Every word from Vietnamese ba →
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