The story
- Middle Chinese · derived from東
- Vietnamese · borrowed fromĐông Kinh“Hanoi; its former kingdom”
- English todayTong-King
From irregular romanization of Vietnamese Đông Kinh (“Hanoi; its former kingdom”), from đông (“east, eastern”) + kinh (“capital”), from Middle Chinese 東 (tuwng) + 京 (kjaeng), q.v.
Words from the same roots
Middle Chinese東 all →
Tokyo
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.