Where does “ベトナム” come from?

ベトナム (Japanese) comes from English Vietnam, from Vietnamese Việt Nam, from Vietnamese Nam Việt, from Middle Chinese 南.

ベトナム (Japanese): Vietnam

Definitions

  1. Vietnam

Ancestry of “ベトナム”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishVietnamA long war which a dominating foreign occupier of...
2VietnameseViệt NamVietnamese
3VietnameseNam ViệtNanyue
4Middle Chinese南—

Words derived from “ベトナム”

Every word from Middle Chinese 南 →Every word from Vietnamese Nam Việt →Every word from Vietnamese Việt Nam →
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