Where does “tiếng sét ái tình” come from?

tiếng sét ái tình (Vietnamese) comes from Vietnamese tiếng, from Middle Chinese 聲 — sound, voice.

tiếng sét ái tình (Vietnamese): love at first sight

Definitions

  1. love at first sight

Ancestry of “tiếng sét ái tình”, step by step

tiếng sét ái tình traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.

via Vietnamese tiếng

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vietnamesetiếngvoice; sound; language
2Middle Chinese聲sound, voice

via Vietnamese sét

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vietnamesesétlightning; to be rusty
2Proto-Vieticp-rɛːtrust; lightning

via Vietnamese ái tình

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vietnameseái tìnhlove
Every word from Middle Chinese 聲 →Every word from Vietnamese tiếng →