Where does “trầm” come from?

trầm (Vietnamese) comes from Chinese 沈.

trầm (Vietnamese): to sink (into); to plunge (into)

Definitions

  1. to sink (into); to plunge (into)

Ancestry of “trầm”, step by step

trầm traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Chinese

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via Middle Chinese

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Words derived from “trầm

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