Where does “vỡ giọng” come from?

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

vỡ giọng (Vietnamese): to undergo a voice crack change in a boy's voice during puberty

Definitions

  1. to undergo a voice crack change in a boy's voice during puberty

Ancestry of “vỡ giọng”, step by step

vỡ giọng 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 giọng

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vietnamesegiọngvoice
Every word from Sino-Tibetan *mow