Where does “vịnh Thái Lan” come from?

vịnh Thái Lan (Vietnamese) comes from Vietnamese Thái Lan, from Chinese 泰, from Chinese 太, from Chinese 大 — big, great; large.

vịnh Thái Lan (Vietnamese): Gulf of Thailand

Definitions

  1. Gulf of Thailand

Ancestry of “vịnh Thái Lan”, step by step

vịnh Thái Lan traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Vietnamese Thái Lan

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1VietnameseThái Lan
2ChineseThai; Tai
3Chinese
4Chinesebig, great; large

via Vietnamese Vinh

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