bệt
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See also: Appendix:Variations of "bet"
Vietnamese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Attested as blẹt in the Dictionarium Annamiticum Lusitanum et Latinum (1651) (the ‹e› is simply due to de Rhodes's orthography, the vowel was [e], not [ɛ]). Cognate with Vietnamese trệt.
This is one of the cases where medial -l- was lost. Compare Middle Vietnamese mlác (> mác), blỉu (> bỉu).