Where does “liên tiểu bang” come from?

liên tiểu bang (Vietnamese) comes from Vietnamese Liên, from Middle Chinese 蓮.

liên tiểu bang (Vietnamese): interstate

Definitions

  1. interstate

Ancestry of “liên tiểu bang”, step by step

liên tiểu bang traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Vietnamese Liên

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1VietnameseLiên—
2Middle Chinese蓮—

via Vietnamese tiểu bang

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vietnamesetiểu bangstate
Every word from Middle Chinese 蓮 →Every word from Vietnamese Liên →