... in the authorized historical records, they, however, are the oldest and the most official and oft-cited terms in history. It seems to us that their archaic-ness and their exclusion from the ... reflections of cultural traces belonging to the generator of these terms. Therefore, a thorough analysis of the differences among the river’s names in origin and formation, to an extent, will shed some ... that Phú Lương and Lô Giang are possible outcomes of the Sinicization and then Sino-Vietnamization process of Austroasiatic-originating words. In other words, Phú Lương and Lô Giang are formally...