Where does “thầu” come from?

thầu (Vietnamese) comes from Chinese 鍮.

thầu (Vietnamese): to contract for

Definitions

  1. to contract for

Ancestry of “thầu”, step by step

thầu traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Chinese

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1Chinese

via Middle Chinese

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1Middle Chinese

Words derived from “thầu

Every word from Chinese