thốt nốt
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Vietnamese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Shorto (2006) traces Vietnamese reflex back to Proto-Mon-Khmer *tn(oo)t ~ tnu(u)t (“sugar palm”), though he proposes that Vietnamese is not inherited but may have been loaned from Khmu, by comparing thốt with Thin Khmu [script needed] (tŭt) & Yuan Khmu [script needed] (tu:t, “plant, tree, trunk, stem”). Other cognates are Khmer ត្នោត (tnaot), and Central Mnong tɒ:m no:t.[1]
The cluster-breaking mechanism, responsible for doublets like thằn lằn "(lizard") and trăn ("python")[2] (< *k-lən < *tlan (“python”)) might also have broken thốt nốt's proto-form's *tn- cluster as well.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [tʰot̚˧˦ not̚˧˦]
- (Huế) IPA(key): [tʰok̚˦˧˥ nok̚˦˧˥]
- (Saigon) IPA(key): [tʰok̚˦˥ nok̚˦˥]
Noun
[edit](classifier cây) thốt nốt
References
[edit]- ^ Shorto, H. A Mon-Khmer Comparative Dictionary, Ed. Paul Sidwell, 2006. #1019, p. 291
- ^ Trần, Trọng Dương. "Decoding Quốc Âm Thi Tập's hexasyllabic lines from the historical-phonological approach" Hán-Nôm Journal. Vol. 1. 2013 (in Vietnamese).