Where does “vậy mà” come from?

vậy mà (Vietnamese) comes from Vietnamese Mã, from Chinese 碼, from English Mark, from German mark, from Latin Mārcus, from Latin Martīnus, from Latin -īnus, from Proto-Italic -īnos — adjectival suffix.

vậy mà (Vietnamese): but; however; yet; still

Definitions

  1. but; however; yet; still

Ancestry of “vậy mà”, step by step

vậy mà traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Vietnamese Mã

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1VietnameseMã—
2Chinese碼—
3EnglishMarkAbbreviation of Markarian
4Germanmarkmark any of various European monetary units
5LatinMārcus—
6LatinMartīnus—
7Latin-īnusof or pertaining to; -ine
8Proto-Italic-īnosof/belonging to
9Proto-Indo-European-iHnosCreates adjectives of materials
10Proto-Indo-European-no-adjectival suffix

via Vietnamese vậy

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vietnamesevậyso, thus; intensifying sentence-final particle
2Proto-Vieticvalʔskirt
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -no- →Every word from Latin -īnus →Every word from Latin Martīnus →