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Noun
gò
- eagle
References
Vietnamese
Etymology
From Proto-Mon-Khmer *tkɔɔʔ ~ *tkɔɔh (“island”). Cognate with Mon လ္ကံ (kɔˀ) or တ္ကံ (tkɔˀ), Chong kɑʔ and Mal kɔʔ.
Pronunciation
Noun
(classifier cái) gò • (𡍢)
- mound, knoll
- 2005, Nguyễn Ngọc Tư, "Cánh đồng bất tận" chapter 4 (in Cánh đồng bất tận), Trẻ publishing house
Những ngày sau này, tôi một mình trở lại gò đất, nhưng chờ hoài không thấy ma hiện ra.- The days after, I went back to the earthen knoll on my own, but even though I waited forever, no ghosts appeared.
- (obsolete) island
- Synonym: đảo
1920, François Chaize , “Phần II. Hạng vật có xương sống (Vertébrés)”, in Địa cầu vạn vật luận - Động vật (Histoire naturelle - zoologie):II. — KHỈ MỒM CÁO (LEMURIENS).
Khỉ ấy nhỏ, có đầu dài giống con cáo, hay trèo cây mà ăn quả hạt cùng sâu bọ, như khỉ hồ (maki) gò Madagascar, hiền lành sạch sẽ và hay ở quen vuối người ta; cu li lờ đờ (louris ou singe paresseux) ở nước Annam. (h. 17)- II. — LEMURS (LEMURIENS).
These are small monkeys with long head like that of a fox, they are often arboreal with a diet consists of fruits, nuts and insects, for example, there are the ring-tailed lemurs (maki) on the island of Madagascar, which are both friendly and hygienic and often live alongside people, and the slow lorises (louris ou singe paresseux) in Annam (Figure 17).
Verb
gò
- to bend, to curve