Where does “bệnh tâm thần” come from?

bệnh tâm thần (Vietnamese) comes from Vietnamese bệnh, from Middle Chinese 病.

bệnh tâm thần (Vietnamese): mental illness; psychiatric disorder

Definitions

  1. mental illness; psychiatric disorder

Ancestry of “bệnh tâm thần”, step by step

bệnh tâm thần traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Vietnamese bệnh

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vietnamesebệnhdisease; illness; sickness; defect; malfunction;...
2Middle Chinese

via Vietnamese tâm thần

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vietnamesetâm thầnmental; mind; spirit; Short for bệnh tâm thần
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