Where does “Mặt trận Tổ quốc Việt Nam” come from?

Mặt trận Tổ quốc Việt Nam (Vietnamese) comes from Vietnamese Việt Nam, from Vietnamese Nam Việt, from Middle Chinese 南.

Mặt trận Tổ quốc Việt Nam (Vietnamese): Vietnamese Fatherland Front ruling coalition and sole legal political coalition of Vietnam

Definitions

  1. Vietnamese Fatherland Front ruling coalition and sole legal political coalition of Vietnam

Ancestry of “Mặt trận Tổ quốc Việt Nam”, step by step

Mặt trận Tổ quốc Việt Nam traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.

via Vietnamese Việt Nam

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1VietnameseViệt NamVietnamese
2VietnameseNam ViệtNanyue
3Middle Chinese南—

via Vietnamese mặt trận

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vietnamesemặt trậnfront; battlefront
2Vietnamesetrậna battle formation; a battle; a match
3Chinese陣—

via Vietnamese tổ quốc

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vietnamesetổ quốchomeland; motherland; fatherland
Every word from Middle Chinese 南 →Every word from Vietnamese Nam Việt →Every word from Vietnamese Việt Nam →