Where does “tiếng đồn” come from?

tiếng đồn (Vietnamese) comes from Vietnamese tiếng, from Middle Chinese 聲 — sound, voice.

tiếng đồn (Vietnamese): rumor; hearsay

Definitions

  1. rumor; hearsay

Ancestry of “tiếng đồn”, step by step

tiếng đồn traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Vietnamese tiếng

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vietnamesetiếngvoice; sound; language
2Middle Chinese聲sound, voice

via Vietnamese đơn

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vietnameseđơnapplication, petition, request; alone, only
2Proto-Mon-Khmerɗuənwide hat of straw
Every word from Middle Chinese 聲 →Every word from Vietnamese tiếng →