Where does “eo biển Đài Loan” come from?

eo biển Đài Loan (Vietnamese) comes from Vietnamese eo biển, from Vietnamese eo, from Chinese 腰.

eo biển Đài Loan (Vietnamese): the Taiwan Strait

Definitions

  1. the Taiwan Strait

Ancestry of “eo biển Đài Loan”, step by step

eo biển Đài Loan traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Vietnamese eo biển

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vietnameseeo biểna strait
2Vietnameseeowaist
3Chinese腰—

via Vietnamese Đài Loan

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1VietnameseĐài LoanTaiwanese
Every word from Chinese 腰 →Every word from Vietnamese eo →Every word from Vietnamese eo biển →