đợ

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Vietnamese

Etymology

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Particularly: “Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese (to make up for, to compensate, SV: để). Compare 抵押 (dǐyā, to mortgage; to provide security; to put up collateral). Possibly unrelated to nợ, which is cognate to Chut panɯ⁴ (Babaev & Samarina, 2018) and is an n-infixed form of bợ (to borrow temporarily).”

Pronunciation

Verb

đợ (𫱩)

  1. to pledge (as debt); to pawn; to collateralize

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