Where does “vẹo” come from?

vẹo (Vietnamese) comes from Malay ribu, from Proto-Malayic *ribu, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ʀibu — thousand.

vẹo (Vietnamese): a hundred thousand

Definitions

  1. a hundred thousand

Ancestry of “vẹo”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Malayributhousand; million
2Proto-Malayic*ribu—
3Proto-Malayo-Polynesian*ʀibuthousand

Words derived from “vẹo”

Every word from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ʀibu →