Where does “chủ nghĩa tự do” come from?

chủ nghĩa tự do (Vietnamese) comes from Vietnamese tự do, from Japanese 自由, from Middle Chinese 自由.

chủ nghĩa tự do (Vietnamese): liberalism

Definitions

  1. liberalism

Ancestry of “chủ nghĩa tự do”, step by step

chủ nghĩa tự do traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Vietnamese tự do

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vietnamesetự dofreedom; liberty; free
2Japanese自由free; flexible; freedom, liberty
3Middle Chinese自由—

via Vietnamese chủ nghĩa

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vietnamesechủ nghĩadoctrine, -ism
2Chinese主義doctrine; ideology; -ism; position; stance; to...
Every word from Middle Chinese 自由 →Every word from Japanese 自由 →Every word from Vietnamese tự do →