Where does “viêm phổi” come from?

viêm phổi (Vietnamese) comes from Vietnamese viêm, from Middle Chinese 炎.

viêm phổi (Vietnamese): pneumonia

Definitions

  1. pneumonia

Ancestry of “viêm phổi”, step by step

viêm phổi traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Vietnamese viêm

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vietnameseviêminflammation
2Middle Chinese

via Vietnamese phổi

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vietnamesephổilung
Every word from Middle Chinese