Where does “tự do báo chí” come from?

tự do báo chí (Vietnamese) comes from Vietnamese báo chí, from Vietnamese báo, from Chinese 豹, from Chinese 駁, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *prawk — to be speckled, variegated, spotted.

tự do báo chí (Vietnamese): freedom of the press

Definitions

  1. freedom of the press

Ancestry of “tự do báo chí”, step by step

tự do báo chí traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Vietnamese báo chí

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vietnamesebáo chínewspapers and magazines, press
2Vietnamesebáoa leopard; a spotted panther; a jaguar or a snow...
3Chinese豹—
4Chinese駁—
5Proto-Sino-Tibetan*prawkto be speckled, variegated, spotted

via Vietnamese tự do

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vietnamesetự dofreedom; liberty; free
2Japanese自由free; flexible; freedom, liberty
3Middle Chinese自由—
Every word from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *prawk →Every word from Chinese 駁 →Every word from Chinese 豹 →