Where does “chiến tranh lạnh” come from?

chiến tranh lạnh (Vietnamese) comes from Vietnamese Lạnh, from French lin, from Latin līnum, from Proto-Italic līnom, from Proto-Indo-European līnom — flax.

chiến tranh lạnh (Vietnamese): cold war

Definitions

  1. cold war

Ancestry of “chiến tranh lạnh”, step by step

chiến tranh lạnh traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.

via Vietnamese Lạnh

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1VietnameseLạnh
2Frenchlinlinen; flax
3Latinlīnumflax
4Proto-Italiclīnom
5Proto-Indo-Europeanlīnomflax

via Vietnamese chiến tranh

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vietnamesechiến tranhwar; warfare

via Vietnamese [[chiến tranh

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vietnamese[[chiến tranh

Words derived from “chiến tranh lạnh

Every word from Proto-Indo-European līnomEvery word from Proto-Italic līnomEvery word from Latin līnum