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Vietnamese
Etymology
Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 空路 (“Path to Heaven”, SV: Không Lộ), the stone pillar that was supposedly constructed to separate heaven and earth and then destroyed by the creator god thần trụ trời.[1]
Element khổng’s unetymological hỏi-tone is possibly due to influence of khủng (“big, huge, dreadful”); element lồ’s huyền-tone likely results from the same historical phonological process which yields doublets like loài & loại from 類 (MC lwijH), từ & tự from 自 (MC dzijH), dùng & dụng from 用 (MC yowngH), etc.
Pronunciation
Adjective
khổng lồ
- huge; gigantic; colossal; massive; enormous
- Carys Matthews (2023 December 5) “World's oldest tortoise still randy at 191 years old”, in Live Science; free Vietnamese translation from An Khang, transl. (2023 December 7), “Rùa khổng lồ thọ nhất thế giới bước qua tuổi 191”, in VnExpress (in Vietnamese)
Jonathan ban đầu được cho là một con rùa khổng lồ Aldabra (Aldabrachelys gigantea) từ đảo san hô vòng Aldabra thuộc quần đảo Seychelles. Nhưng sau khi các chuyên gia thú y và tổ chức Seychelles Nature Trust kiểm tra vỏ của nó, họ xác định nó là một con rùa khổng lồ Seychelles hiếm gặp.- Jonathan was originally identified as an Aldabra giant tortoise (Aldabrachelys gigantea) from the Aldabra Atoll, which forms part of the Seychelles archipelago. But following an examination of his shell by zoological professionals and the Seychelles Nature Trust, scientists determined he was likely a rare Seychelles giant tortoise.
2024 March 7, An Khang, “Bí ẩn về mực khổng lồ Nam Cực [The Mystery of the Colossal Squid]”, in VnExpress:Trong khi mực khổng lồ là một quái vật xét về kích thước, nó có loài họ hàng thậm chí còn lớn và khó thấy hơn là mực khổng lồ Nam Cực.- While the giant squid is a monster in terms of size, it has an even larger and more rarely seen relative, the colossal squid .
Derived terms
References
- ^ Nguyễn Đổng Chi (2003) Tác phẩm được tặng Giải thưởng Hồ Chí Minh [Works Awarded the Hồ Chí Minh Prize] (in Vietnamese), pages 67-69