đủ đủ

Vietnamese

Etymology

Attested in older dictionaries like Dictionarium latino-anamiticum (1838), Manuel de conversation Franco-Tonkinois (1889), Đại Nam quấc âm tự vị (1895), and Vocabulaire français-annamite (1898). It was used alongside the extant form.

Pronunciation

  • (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [ʔɗu˧˩ ʔɗu˧˩]
  • (Huế) IPA(key): [ʔɗʊw˧˨ ʔɗʊw˧˨]
  • (Saigon) IPA(key): [ʔɗʊw˨˩˦ ʔɗʊw˨˩˦]

Noun

(classifier cây, trái, quả) đủ đủ

  1. obsolete form of đu đủ (papaya)