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Vietnamese
Etymology
From Proto-Vietic *kəŋʔ. Compare Khmer កឹង (kəng) and Pacoh câng. Possibly related to nứng (“horny”), through an infixed form.
Similarities to Chinese 勁 (OC *keŋ-s) (SV: kình, kính), 強 (OC *N-kaŋ, *m-kaŋʔ) (SV: cường, cưỡng), 剛 (OC *kˤaŋ) (SV: cương), 堅 (OC *kˤi) (SV: kiên) are probably coincidental. The Austroasiatic words might also be borrowed from another source that gave rise to one of the Sinitic words.
Also a semantic loan from English hard in hardware and hard copy.
Pronunciation
Adjective
cứng • (亘, 勁, 徑, 𠡚, 𦚸)
- hard; firm; rigid
- Synonym: rắn, Antonym: mềm (“soft”)
- (of a copy of a document) hard
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