English
Saigon
Saigon comes from Vietnamese Sài Gòn.
- VietnamesemodernSài Gòn
- Englishearliest quotation 2000Saigon
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
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- VietnamesemodernSài Gòn
- Englishearliest quotation 2000Saigon
Earliest quotation: 2000, Walter A. McDougall, Who Were We in Vietnam?: “But news that the North Vietnamese had launched an…”
Every English word from Vietnamese Sài Gòn
Today it means
name The former name of Ho Chi Minh City, the largest city in Vietnam; the former capital of South Vietnam.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Vietnamese Sài Gòn / Saigon