Where does “giáo” come from?

giáo (Vietnamese) comes from Middle Chinese 交.

giáo (Vietnamese): lance, spear; to teach, to educate; religion

Definitions

  1. lance, spear; to teach, to educate; religion

Ancestry of “giáo”, step by step

giáo traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Middle Chinese

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle Chinese

via Middle Chinese

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle Chinese

Words derived from “giáo

Every word from Middle Chinese