vâng

See also: vang, váng, Vang, vàng, văng, vẳng, and vắng

Mizo

Noun

vâng

reason, cause
- Vanglaini, "Food poisoning vangin Indonesia-ah naupang 6,000 chuang damlo [Over 6000 children sick due to food poisoning in Indonesia]", 26 September 2025
  [...] zirlai naupang 6,452 chu food poisoning vangin an damlo tawh.
  ...over 6452 schoolchildren have fallen ill due to food poisoning.

Usage notes

Usually appears in the oblique form vângin (“because [of]”).

Vietnamese

Alternative forms

(obsolete, Central Vietnam, Southern Vietnam) vưng

Etymology

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Particularly: “The original meaning is quite transparently "to obey, to follow". The Nôm characters all have 邦 (MC paewng) (SV: bang) as phonetic, so the current ‹v-› is the result of lenition. Based on the character 𢀥 (巨 (MC gjoX) + 邦 (MC paewng)), it might be tempting to reconstruct the onset *k-p-.”

A cognate is found in Eastern Cham peng (“to obey”) (Shin'e & Sakaya, 2014), which might be a rather late Vietnamese loan as suggested by its monosyllabic shape.