Where does “đĩa nhạc” come from?

đĩa nhạc (Vietnamese) comes from Vietnamese đĩa, from Chinese 碟, from Middle Chinese 疊 — to fold.

đĩa nhạc (Vietnamese): a disc record (with music)

Definitions

  1. a disc record (with music)

Ancestry of “đĩa nhạc”, step by step

đĩa nhạc traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Vietnamese đĩa

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vietnameseđĩaa plate, a dish, a saucer, etc; a disc, a disk,...
2Chinese
3Middle Chineseto fold

via Vietnamese nhạc

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vietnamesenhạcmusic
Every word from Middle Chinese