Where does “chúng mình” come from?
chúng mình (Vietnamese) comes from Vietnamese chúng, from Chinese 症, from Chinese 證.
chúng mình (Vietnamese): we
Ancestry of “chúng mình”, step by step
chúng mình traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Vietnamese chúng
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Vietnamese | chúng | "pluralizing particle for pronouns"; they; them;... |
| 2 | Chinese | 症 | — |
| 3 | Chinese | 證 | — |
via Vietnamese mình
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Vietnamese | mình | a torso; a body; I/me, someone of roughly your... |
| 2 | Middle Vietnamese | mềnh | — |