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Vietnamese
Etymology
Coined by musician Khắc Hưng in the viral music video "Ghen Cô Vy" ("Jealous of Miss Vy") as a pun on COVID and cô + Vy, a common female name. "Cô Vy" is a natural pronunciation respelling of COVID in Vietnamese, which does not allow syllables to end with /d/.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Cô Vy
- (colloquial) a personification of COVID, specifically COVID-19; Miss Rona
2020 February 23, Trần Đăng, “Gồng mình qua đại dịch”, in Quảng Nam Online, Tam Kỳ, Quảng Nam, archived from the original on 22 March 2020:Đùng một cái, “dịch Cô Vy” (gọi nôm na từ Covid-19) xuất hiện, từ hơn nửa tháng nay, đường phố đột nhiên trống vắng.- All of a sudden, the "Cô Vy epidemic" (an informal term for COVID-19) appeared. Over half a month ago, the streets suddenly emptied out.
2020 March 18, Nguyễn Q, “Cô Vy ở New York City”, in Việt Báo, Garden Grove, California, retrieved 2020-03-21:Taxi ở NYC một thời làm mưa làm gió, phải trả cả triệu đô-la cho một cái giấy phép, vừa bị khốn đốn vì Uber và Lyft, nay thêm cô Vy nầy.- It was raining and pouring for taxis in NYC for a while, having to pay as much as a million dollars for a license, meanwhile being sent into poverty by Uber and Lyft, and now add this COVID to the mix.
2020 April 7, Bùi Văn Phú, “Thư từ Mỹ : Cô Vi và XHCN trên bảo dưới không nghe”, in BBC News Vietnamese, British Broadcasting Corporation:Thế rồi tình hình đối phó với Cô Vi lây lan làm rúng động nước Mỹ.- As it happened, dealing with COVID’s spread sent reverberations across America.
2021 August 1, “Nhà thiết kế Thuận Việt và 3 tuần cắt 15 tấn rau muống chở đến khu phong tỏa [The designer Thuận Việt and 3 weeks cutting 15 tonnes of water spinach to deliver to a quarantined neighborhood]”, in Tuổi Trẻ, Ho Chi Minh City, retrieved 2021-11-17:Và những chuyến xe, chuyến thu hoạch đong đầy tình người này sẽ vẫn tiếp tục cho đến khi "cô vy đi xa".- And these trips and harvests filled with humanity will still continue until "COVID goes far away".
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References
- Seymat, Thomas with Julie Gaubert (2020 March 3) “Coronavirus: Vietnamese COVID-19 video goes viral as prevention message proves popular”, in Euronews, retrieved 2020-03-21