Etymology

Kien

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Today it means: A surname. Full definition →

Vietnamese Kiến ← German Kien
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The story

  1. German · borrowed fromKien
  2. Vietnamese · borrowed fromKiến
  3. English todayKien

Two main origins: * Borrowed from Vietnamese Kiến. * Borrowed from Dutch and German Kien, a variant of Kuhn.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.