face (front part of head) · face (facial expression) · face (public image)
köken: Attested as mặt in the Dictionarium Annamiticum Lusitanum et Latinum (1651). Originally meaning “eye” and is the regular descendant of Proto-Vietic *mat (“eye”), further from Proto-Austroasiatic *matʔ (“eye”). Related to mắt (“eye”). The semantic change of “eye” > “face” can also be seen in Muong, most dialects of which use a single form, măt, to mean both “eye” and “face”.
aile: bản mặt, bề mặt, bục mặt, chạm mặt, chóng mặt, có mặt, dằn mặt, đỏ mặt, đối mặt, giáp mặt