cờ vây

Vietnamese

Etymology

cờ (“board game with pieces or tokens”) +‎ vây (“to encircle; to surround”), calque of Chinese 圍棋 / 围棋 (vi kì). Compare Japanese 囲碁 (igo).

Attested in the Dictionarium Anamitico Latinum (1773 manuscript), listed alongside cờ tướng, cờ tiên and cờ song lục as various board games.[1]

Pronunciation

  • (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [kəː˨˩ vəj˧˧]
  • (Huế) IPA(key): [kəː˦˩ vəj˧˧]
  • (Saigon) IPA(key): [kəː˨˩ vəj˧˧] ~ [kəː˨˩ jəj˧˧]

Noun

cờ vây

  1. go (board game)

References

  1. ^ [...] (1773) Dictionarium Anamitico Latinum‎[1] (in Latin), unnumbered page
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