Where does “tuổi thơ” come from?

tuổi thơ (Vietnamese) comes from Vietnamese thơ, from Middle Chinese 詩.

tuổi thơ (Vietnamese): childhood; youth

Definitions

  1. childhood; youth

Ancestry of “tuổi thơ”, step by step

tuổi thơ traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Vietnamese thơ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vietnamesethơyoung, tender; poetry; a poem
2Middle Chinese

via Vietnamese tuổi

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vietnamesetuổiage; year
Every word from Middle Chinese
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