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Where does “Vietnam” come from?

Vietnam is the English name for the Southeast Asian country, derived from Vietnamese Việt Nam.

Vietnam (English): A long war which a dominating foreign occupier of...

Definitions

  1. A long war which a dominating foreign occupier of...

Ancestry of “Vietnam”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1VietnameseViệt NamVietnamese
2VietnameseNam Việt—
3Middle Chinese南—

Words derived from “Vietnam”

  • Vietnamese
  • Vietnamization
  • Vietnamize
  • Sino-Vietnamese
  • ベトナム
  • Vietnam
  • ভিয়েটনাম
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