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Where does “tơ lụa” come from?

tơ lụa (Vietnamese) comes from Vietnamese tổ, from Chinese 似.

tơ lụa (Vietnamese): silk

Definitions

  1. silk

Ancestry of “tơ lụa”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vietnamesetổa nest; a group or team that is divided from a...
2Chinese似—

Words derived from “tơ lụa”

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