Where does “nửa chừng” come from?

nửa chừng (Vietnamese) comes from Vietnamese chúng, from Chinese 症, from Chinese 證.

nửa chừng (Vietnamese): half-done; unfinished; halfway (through)

Definitions

  1. half-done; unfinished; halfway (through)

Ancestry of “nửa chừng”, step by step

nửa chừng traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Vietnamese chúng

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vietnamesechúng"pluralizing particle for pronouns"; they; them;...
2Chinese症—
3Chinese證—

via Vietnamese nửa

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vietnamesenửahalf; half; semi-
2Proto-Mon-Khmern(ɗ)aah—
Every word from Chinese 證 →Every word from Chinese 症 →Every word from Vietnamese chúng →