Where does “nhà sách” come from?

nhà sách (Vietnamese) comes from Vietnamese sách, from Chinese 冊.

nhà sách (Vietnamese): bookshop; bookstore

Definitions

  1. bookshop; bookstore

Ancestry of “nhà sách”, step by step

nhà sách traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Vietnamese sách

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vietnamesesáchbook
2Chinese冊—

via Vietnamese nhà

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vietnamesenhàa house; a home; a dwelling; an immediate family;...
2Proto-Vieticɲaːhouse
Every word from Chinese 冊 →