gẻ

See also: Appendix:Variations of "ge"

Middle Vietnamese

Alternative forms

  • iẻ

Etymology

From Proto-Vietic *k-cɛh (“rag”); cognate with Muong ché.

Noun

gẻ

  1. rag, dust cloth
    lếy gẻ mà ꞗá áo
    to take a rag and patch a dress with it
  2. (cloth) body (comparative viscosity, solidity, or substance)
    Ꞗóc này tốt gẻ.
    This piece of silk is full of body.
    ꞗĕải tốt gẻ
    silk full of body

Descendants

References

This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.