sino-vietnamese
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.13 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Pertaining to the Chinese-derived elements in the Vietnamese language.
noun
The Chinese-derived elements in the Vietnamese language.
Etymology
Etymology tree English Sino- English Vietnam Proto-Indo-European *-iskos Proto-Germanic *-iskaz Proto-West Germanic *-iskbor. Late Latin -iscus ▲ Vulgar Latin -iscus Latin -ēnsis Old French -eisbor. Middle English -eys English -ese English Vietnamese English Sino-Vietnamese From Sino- + Vietnamese.