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Vietnamese
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Proto-Vietic *t-kəɲ. Traditionally regarded as a non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 近 (SV: cận).
There have been some proposals, including Miyake (2015) and Trần Trí Dõi (2016), that this term is not a loanword. The earliest layer of Sinitic loans in Vietic usually show the shift of *-r > *-n characteristic of the later stages of Old Chinese. However, there is no motivation for the shift of this *-n to *-ɲ (Rục kept Vietic *-n as is after all vowels).
In any case, cognate with Muong Bi khênh, Chut təkiɲ¹, Arem kɨ̀ɲ.
Pronunciation
Adjective
gần • (𧵆)
- near; nearby; close (to)
- Antonyms: xa, ngái
Adverb
gần • (𧵆)
- nearly; almost
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