dĕấu
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Middle Vietnamese[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- dấu (Northern form with depalatalization)
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Vietic *k-toːʔ (“trace, footprint”). Attested in the Dictionarium Annamiticum Lusitanum et Latinum (1651), a dictionary based chiefly on the Northern dialects. As with other words with this initial, the Northern dialects depalatalized this initial ([ðj- > ð- > z-] in the modern dialects) while the Southern dialects defricativized it ([ðj- > j-] in the modern dialects).
The modern North Central form đấu is not a reflex of this form, but from an earlier form that did not undergo lenition.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
dĕấu