köken: /omedetaku/ → /omedetau/ → /omedetɔː/ → /omedetoː/ Originally a compound of 御 (o-, honorific prefix) + 愛でたく (medetaku, “admirably, auspiciously”), from adjective 愛でたい (medetai, “admirable, auspicious”). Modern Japanese -i adjectives formerly ended in -ki for the attributive form. This medial /k/ dropped out during the Muromachi period, both for the attributive form (-ki becoming -i) and for the…
köken: From chúc (“to wish; to congratulate”) + mừng (“glad; to congratulate”).
aile: chúc mừng năm mới, chúc mừng sinh nhật
Chúc mừng năm mới!
chúc mừng thắng lợi
Etimoloji
Literally, “from the heart”. The form harte is an old dative case form of hart. An even older form, still attested in Early Modern Dutch, was van harten.