Where does “thành” come from?

thành (Vietnamese) comes from Chinese 青, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *sreŋ — to live.

thành (Vietnamese): into; to achieve one's goal, to become, to turn...

Definitions

  1. into; to achieve one's goal, to become, to turn...

Ancestry of “thành”, step by step

thành traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.

via Chinese 青

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Chinese青—
2Proto-Sino-Tibetan*sreŋto live

via Chinese 成

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Chinese成—

via Middle Chinese 城

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle Chinese城—

Words derived from “thành”

Every word from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *sreŋ →Every word from Chinese 青 →