Where does “Con đường tơ lụa” come from?

Con đường tơ lụa (Vietnamese) comes from Vietnamese con đường, from Vietnamese con, from Proto-Vietic kɔːn, from Proto-Mon-Khmer kuun — child.

Con đường tơ lụa (Vietnamese): the Silk Road

Definitions

  1. the Silk Road

Ancestry of “Con đường tơ lụa”, step by step

Con đường tơ lụa traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Vietnamese con đường

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vietnamesecon đườngroad; way; path; route
2Vietnameseconchild; a small thing; I/me, your child
3Proto-Vietickɔːnchild
4Proto-Mon-Khmerkuunchild

via Vietnamese tơ lụa

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vietnamesetơ lụasilk
2Vietnamesetổa nest; a group or team that is divided from a...
3Chinese似—
Every word from Proto-Mon-Khmer kuun →Every word from Proto-Vietic kɔːn →Every word from Vietnamese con →