Where does “vô tích sự” come from?

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

vô tích sự (Vietnamese): worthless

Definitions

  1. worthless

Ancestry of “vô tích sự”, step by step

vô tích sự 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 tích sự

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vietnamesetích sựworth or use
Every word from Sino-Tibetan *mow