dông

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Vietnamese

Alternative forms

  • (unetymological spelling) giông

Etymology

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Particularly: “In the transcription system used by Ferlus, the Mày form would be kətoːŋ¹ and the Proto-Vietic form would be *k-toːŋ.”

Cognate with Chut katoŋ¹ (Babaev & Samarina, 2018).

The spelling giông appears to arise from hypercorrection and is often attributed to Vũ Trọng Phụng's Giông Tố (1936), but there are plenty of examples of giông that predate the novel; for example, it is attested in the second volume of Nam Kỳ phong tục nhơn vật diễn ca (1909).

Pronunciation

Noun

(classifier cơn, con) dông (, 𩄱, 𩘨)

  1. a thunderstorm
    dông bão / bão dôngthunderstorms and the like
    đời dông bãoa struggling life

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