Where does “ベトナム戦争” come from?

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

ベトナム戦争 (Japanese): the Vietnam War

Definitions

  1. the Vietnam War

Ancestry of “ベトナム戦争”, step by step

ベトナム戦争 traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Japanese ベトナム

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1JapaneseベトナムVietnam
2EnglishVietnamA long war which a dominating foreign occupier of...
3VietnameseViệt NamVietnamese
4VietnameseNam ViệtNanyue
5Middle Chinese南—

via Japanese 戦争

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese戦争war; to wage war
Every word from Middle Chinese 南 →Every word from Vietnamese Nam Việt →Every word from Vietnamese Việt Nam →