Where does “Bến Thành” come from?

Bến Thành (English) comes from Vietnamese Bến Thành, from Vietnamese thành, from Chinese 青, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *sreŋ — to live.

Ancestry of “Bến Thành”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1VietnameseBến Thành—
2Vietnamesethànhinto; to achieve one's goal, to become, to turn...
3Chinese青—
4Proto-Sino-Tibetan*sreŋto live
Every word from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *sreŋ →Every word from Chinese 青 →Every word from Vietnamese thành →