Where does “vá vỏ” come from?

vá vỏ (Vietnamese) comes from Vietnamese vô, from Vietnamese vụ, from Chinese 務, from Sino-Tibetan *mow.

vá vỏ (Vietnamese): to repair a puncture on a tyre

Definitions

  1. to repair a puncture on a tyre

Ancestry of “vá vỏ”, step by step

vá vỏ traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Vietnamese

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vietnameseto enter; to go into; to toast; emphasizing...
2Vietnamesevụseason; case, affair; specialized department...
3Chinese
4Sino-Tibetan*mow

via Vietnamese

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vietnameseand; To shovel food from a rice bowl into one's...
2Chineseharmonious
3Japanesepeace, harmony, tranquillity, serenity; sum
4Middle Chinese
Every word from Sino-Tibetan *mow