đướn

Vietnamese

Etymology

Cognate with mainstream Vietnamese dưới; inherited from an unattested Central Old Vietnamese form different from the Northern Old Vietnamese attested in early Nôm texts.

This form appears to be distributed in Thanh Hoá, where *-l > /n/ was a common sound change.

Pronunciation

  • (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [ʔɗɨən˧˦]
  • (Huế) IPA(key): [ʔɗɨəŋ˦˧˥]
  • (Saigon) IPA(key): [ʔɗɨəŋ˦˥]

Preposition

đướn

  1. North Central Vietnam form of dưới (“under, below”)
    Chỗ su đến háng, chỗ trốc cun
    Miếu Ông ngồi đó, đướn cân trôi[1]

Derived terms

  • nhà đướn

References

  1. ^ Hoàng Anh Nhân, Lê Huy Trâm (1998) Địa chí Nông Cống [Chorography of Nông Cống] (in Vietnamese), Hanoi: NXB Khoa học xã hội, page 418
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