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Muong
Etymology
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Particularly: “The earlier form would be *nɔːʔ. All other Austrosiatic forms point to *-s ~ *-h. Unusual correspondence but not unheard of I think.”
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Compare Bahnar nuih (“heart”), Pnar nod (“liver”), Riang kᵊnuəs² ("heart, mind").
Pronunciation
Noun
nỏ
- (Mường Bi) heart
References
- Nguyễn Văn Khang, Bùi Chỉ, Hoàng Văn Hành (2002) Từ điển Mường - Việt (Muong - Vietnamese dictionary), Nhà xuất bản Văn hoá Dân tộc Hà Nội
Vietnamese
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 弩 (“crossbow”, SV: nỗ) (Haudricourt, 1954: 24). Doublet of ná.
Noun
(classifier cái) nỏ
- crossbow
See also
References
- ^ André-Georges Haudricourt. "Comment reconstruire le chinois archaïque", Word 10(2/3). 351–364 (1954). Reprinted (with additions) 1 in Problèmes de phonologie diachronique: 161-182. Translated in 2017 by Guillaume Jacques. draft
Etymology 2
From Proto-Vietic *-nɔh.
This word is attested in the poems of Nguyễn Trãi, who was a native of Northern Vietnam, showing that it used to have wider distribution in the past.
Adverb
nỏ
- (North Central Vietnam) not
15th century, Nguyễn Trãi, “寶鏡警戒 Bảo kính cảnh giới 3”, in Quốc âm thi tập (國音詩集):固𧵑恒朱吏固通
積饒𡥵𡥙怒- Có của hằng cho lại có thông,
Tích nhiều con cháu nỏ trông. - "Having wealth is everything", it is often thought,
Accumulate them but the progeny just keep squandering (lit. do not look after them).
Synonyms