Where does “Tết Trung thu” come from?
Tết Trung thu (Vietnamese) comes from Vietnamese Trung thu, from Vietnamese 中秋.
Tết Trung thu (Vietnamese): Mid-Autumn Festival
Definitions
- Mid-Autumn Festival
Ancestry of “Tết Trung thu”, step by step
Tết Trung thu traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Vietnamese Trung thu
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vietnamese | Trung thu | mid-autumn; Mid-Autumn Festival |
| 2 | Vietnamese | 中秋 | — |
via Vietnamese tết
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vietnamese | tết | to plait; to twist; Alternative letter-case form... |