Where does “tỏ ý” come from?

tỏ ý (Vietnamese) comes from Vietnamese tổ, from Chinese 似.

tỏ ý (Vietnamese): to express; to show; to display

Definitions

  1. to express; to show; to display

Ancestry of “tỏ ý”, step by step

tỏ ý traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Vietnamese tổ

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

via Vietnamese Ý

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1VietnameseÝItalian
2Middle Chinese意—
Every word from Chinese 似 →