Where does “Ngân hàng Thế giới” come from?
Ngân hàng Thế giới (Vietnamese) comes from Vietnamese ngân hàng, from Japanese 銀行, from Japanese 銀, from Middle Chinese 銀, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan ŋul ~ (d-)ŋur — silver.
Ngân hàng Thế giới (Vietnamese): the World Bank
Definitions
- the World Bank
Ancestry of “Ngân hàng Thế giới”, step by step
Ngân hàng Thế giới traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Vietnamese ngân hàng
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vietnamese | ngân hàng | bank |
| 2 | Japanese | 銀行 | a bank |
| 3 | Japanese | 銀 | silver |
| 4 | Middle Chinese | 銀 | — |
| 5 | Proto-Sino-Tibetan | ŋul ~ (d-)ŋur | silver |