gần

See also: Appendix:Variations of "gan"

Vietnamese

Alternative forms

  • (North Central Vietnam) gưn
  • (North Central Vietnam) gin

Etymology

From Proto-Vietic *t-kəɲ. Traditionally regarded as a non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 近 (SV: cận).

There have been some proposals, including Miyake (2015) and Trần Trí Dõi (2016), that this term is not a loanword. The earliest layer of Sinitic loans in Vietic usually show the shift of *-r > *-n characteristic of the later stages of Old Chinese. However, there is no motivation for the shift of this *-n to *-ɲ (Rục kept Vietic *-n as is after all vowels).

In any case, cognate with Muong Bi khênh, Chut [Rục] təkiɲ¹, Arem kɨ̀ɲ. Attested in Phật thuyết đại báo phụ mẫu ân trọng kinh (佛說大報父母恩重經) as phonetic 斤 (modern SV: cân)

Pronunciation

Adjective

gần • (𧵆)

  1. near; nearby; close (to)
    Antonyms: xa, ngái

Adverb

gần • (𧵆)

  1. nearly; almost

Derived terms

See also

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