Talk:вьетнамки

What is with this and japonka? Wyang (talk) 12:17, 13 February 2014 (UTC)
 * I have no idea about the etymology, perhaps knows. It sounds racist but it's not. Apparently, it's not comparing flip flops with Vietnamese or Japanese women but with what they wore. --Anatoli (обсудить/вклад) 12:30, 13 February 2014 (UTC)
 * I don't have etymological sources for modern borrowings, so I can't say for sure. I don't think the suffix here refers to women. It is rather a diminutive suffix. Compare  hats, Havaiana flip-flops. All of them probably refer to exotic places where people wear such things. --Vahag (talk) 12:41, 13 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Thanks. There seems to be some relationship between japonka and the New Zealand English word jandal, which derived from "Japanese sandals", possibly a trademark in the 1950s. The flip-flops do look like Japanese sandals and . As for the Vietnamese, they have a separate word for "sandals": dép. вьетнамки might have derived from, a type of sandals made from rubber tyres (also called Ho Chi Minh sandals), worn by Vietnamese soldiers during the Vietnam war . Wyang (talk) 22:46, 13 February 2014 (UTC)