đom đóm

Vietnamese

Etymology

Reduplication of đóm. Compare bươm bướm (“butterfly”) < bướm, nhền nhện (“spider”) < nhện.

Unlike the mentioned cases, the root *đóm is not in use as a free morpheme.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

(classifier con) đom đóm

  1. a firefly
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