Where does “Vũng Tàu” come from?

Vũng Tàu (Vietnamese) comes from Vietnamese Tàu, from Vietnamese Ba Tàu, from Vietnamese ba, from Proto-Vietic paː, from Proto-Mon-Khmer piʔ.

Ancestry of “Vũng Tàu”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1VietnameseTàuChinese; Chink
2VietnameseBa TàuOf or pertaining to ethnic Chinese people in...
3Vietnamesebafather; three; secondborn
4Proto-Vieticpaːthree
5Proto-Mon-Khmerpiʔ—

Words derived from “Vũng Tàu”

Every word from Proto-Mon-Khmer piʔ →