Where does “trầm mình” come from?

trầm mình (Vietnamese) comes from Vietnamese trầm, from Chinese 沈.

trầm mình (Vietnamese): to commit suicide by jumping into the water to drown

Definitions

  1. to commit suicide by jumping into the water to drown

Ancestry of “trầm mình”, step by step

trầm mình traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Vietnamese trầm

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vietnamesetrầmto sink (into); to plunge (into)
2Chinese沈—

via Vietnamese mình

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vietnamesemìnha torso; a body; I/me, someone of roughly your...
2Middle Vietnamesemềnh—
Every word from Chinese 沈 →
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