Where does “vụ” come from?

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

vụ (Vietnamese): season; case, affair; specialized department...

Definitions

  1. season; case, affair; specialized department...

Ancestry of “vụ”, step by step

vụ traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.

via Chinese 務

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Chinese務—
2Sino-Tibetan*mow—

via Proto-Vietic k-buːʔ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Vietick-buːʔ—

via Middle Chinese 羽

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle Chinese羽—

Words derived from “vụ”

Every word from Sino-Tibetan *mow →Every word from Chinese 務 →