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Where does “Vác-sa-va” come from?

Vác-sa-va (Vietnamese) comes from Polish Warszawa, from Old Polish Warszewa.

Ancestry of “Vác-sa-va”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1PolishWarszawaWarsaw
2Old PolishWarszewa—
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