Where does “vụ mùa” come from?

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

vụ mùa (Vietnamese): crop period (time period that elapsed for the instant of the sowing of the crop to the instant of its harvesting)

Definitions

  1. crop period (time period that elapsed for the instant of the sowing of the crop to the instant of its harvesting)

Ancestry of “vụ mùa”, step by step

vụ mùa traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Vietnamese vụ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vietnamesevụseason; case, affair; specialized department...
2Chinese
3Sino-Tibetan*mow

via Vietnamese mưa

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vietnamesemưarain; to rain
2Proto-Vietick-maːrain
3Proto-Mon-Khmergmaʔ
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