Where does “เวียดนาม” come from?

เวียดนาม (Thai) comes from English Vietnam, from Vietnamese Việt Nam, from Vietnamese Nam Việt, from Middle Chinese 南.

เวียดนาม (Thai): Vietnamese

Definitions

  1. Vietnamese

Ancestry of “เวียดนาม”, step by step

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

Words derived from “เวียดนาม”

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