Where does “thẻ tín dụng” come from?

thẻ tín dụng (Vietnamese) comes from Vietnamese thế, from Chinese 矢, from Sino-Tibetan *tV-lij.

thẻ tín dụng (Vietnamese): credit card

Definitions

  1. credit card

Ancestry of “thẻ tín dụng”, step by step

thẻ tín dụng traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Vietnamese thế

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vietnamesethếposition; posture; condition; situation; power;...
2Chinese矢—
3Sino-Tibetan*tV-lij—

via Vietnamese tín dụng

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vietnamesetín dụngcredit
2Japanese信用belief, trust, confidence; reliance; to believe,...
Every word from Sino-Tibetan *tV-lij →Every word from Chinese 矢 →Every word from Vietnamese thế →