đốm

See also: Appendix: Variations of "dom"

Vietnamese

Etymology

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Particularly: “Supposedly from Old Chinese 點 (OC *tˤemʔ)^[1]^[2] and

non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 點 (SV: điểm) yet Old Chinese */e/, even before labials, usually correspond Vietnamese front, unrounded vowels ‹e› /ɛ/ (e.g. rèm ← 簾 (OC *rem)) or ‹ê› /e/ (e.g. đếm ← 點 (OC ←*tˤemʔ)), instead of back, round vowel ‹ô› /o/.”

Pronunciation

(Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [ʔɗom˧˦]
(Huế) IPA^(key): [ʔɗom˦˧˥]
(Saigon) IPA^(key): [ʔɗom˦˥]

Noun

đốm • (炶)

spot

Adjective

đốm • (炶)

spotted

Derived terms

References

^ Baxter, William H.; Sagart, Laurent (2014), Old Chinese:A New Reconstruction, pages 72, 97-98, 100
^ Hill, Nathan W. (2019), The Historical Phonology of Tibetan, Burmese, and Chinese, page 159

[1] Baxter, William H.; Sagart, Laurent (2014), Old Chinese:A New Reconstruction, pages 72, 97-98, 100

[2] Hill, Nathan W. (2019), The Historical Phonology of Tibetan, Burmese, and Chinese, page 159

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