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Vietnamese
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Middle Vietnamese tlước, from Proto-Vietic *k-laːk. Cognate with Malieng kələak⁸. Related to Proto-Katuic *kaliiʔ (“forehead”) (whence Western Bru kali̤aʔ).
Attested in Phật thuyết đại báo phụ mẫu ân trọng kinh (佛說大報父母恩重經) as 略 (MC ljak) (modern SV: lược) and 畧, alternative form of 略 (MC ljak) (modern SV: lược).
- (certain coastal Northern dialects, endangered) tước (dialects with /ʈ/-/t/ merger)
Preposition
trước • (畧, 𠓀, 𨎠, , 𱏯, 𱐨, 略, 𠠩)
- before (earlier than in time)
- in front of
Adverb
trước • (畧, 𠓀, 𨎠, , 𱏯, 𱐨, 略, 𠠩)
- before
- ago
See also
Etymology 2
Attested in the Dictionarium Anamitico-Latinum (1838), Đại Nam Quấc âm tự vị (1895) as a Vietnamese morpheme, and in Tam Tự Kinh diễn nghĩa (1917) as the Sino-Vietnamese reading of 竹 (MC trjuwk).
Compare phúc vs. phước, phụng vs. phượng.
Noun
(classifier cây) trước
- (obsolete) Southern Vietnam form of trúc (“(kind of) bamboo”)
1895, Huình Tịnh Của, Đại Nam Quấc âm tự vị:梅 Mai. c. (Mơ) Hai thứ cây lớn, thứ có bông thơm, thứ có trái chua.
― trước. Cây mai, cây trước, nghĩa mượn là bậu bạn, vợ chồng.- 梅 Mai. c. (Mơ) Two species of big trees, one has fragrant flowers, the other has sour fruits.
― trước. Ochnas and bamboos, signify friendship or conjugality.