Where does “tuyến” come from?

tuyến (Vietnamese) comes from Japanese 腺, from Japanese 泉, from Japanese 和泉 — Izumi, an old province of Japan.

tuyến (Vietnamese): gland; line

Definitions

  1. gland; line

Ancestry of “tuyến”, step by step

tuyến traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Japanese 腺

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese腺gland
2Japanese泉natural spring, a wellspring
3Japanese和泉Izumi, an old province of Japan

via Chinese 線

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Chinese線line

Words derived from “tuyến”

Every word from Japanese 和泉 →Every word from Japanese 泉 →Every word from Japanese 腺 →