Where does “tế bào gốc” come from?

tế bào gốc (Vietnamese) comes from Vietnamese tế bào, from Japanese 細胞 — a cell.

tế bào gốc (Vietnamese): stem cell

Definitions

  1. stem cell

Ancestry of “tế bào gốc”, step by step

tế bào gốc traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Vietnamese tế bào

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vietnamesetế bàoa cell
2Japanese細胞a cell

via Vietnamese gốc

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vietnamesegốcfoot; origin; root
2Proto-Vietict-koːkstump
Every word from Japanese 細胞 →Every word from Vietnamese tế bào →