Where does “xương thái dương” come from?

xương thái dương (Vietnamese) comes from Vietnamese Thái Dương, from Middle Chinese 太 — great.

xương thái dương (Vietnamese): temporal bone

Definitions

  1. temporal bone

Ancestry of “xương thái dương”, step by step

xương thái dương traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Vietnamese Thái Dương

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1VietnameseThái DươngSun
2Middle Chinesegreat

via Vietnamese xương

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vietnamesexươngbone
2Proto-Vietic*ɟaːŋ//*tʃɨəŋ
Every word from Middle Chinese Every word from Vietnamese Thái Dương