giấc

Vietnamese

Alternative forms

  • (North Central Vietnam) chớt, chớc

Etymology

Cognate with Chut [Mày] pacɤk³ (Babaev & Samarina, 2018).

The Nôm characters for this word has 職 (MC tsyik) (SV: chức) as phonetic, indicating that modern ‹gi-› derived from the lenition of earlier *-c-. Also compare North Central Vietnamese chớc (cf. giếng vs. chiếng, giăng vs. chăng, etc.).

Pronunciation

  • (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [zək̚˧˦]
  • (Huế) IPA(key): [jək̚˦˧˥]
  • (Saigon) IPA(key): [jək̚˦˥]
  • Audio (Hà Nội):(file)

Classifier

giấc • (弋, 𢩮, 聀, 𠺵, 職, 𥋏)

  1. indicates sleep times and dreams
    giấc ngủ ― a sleep period or a nap
    giấc mơ/mộng ― a dream

Derived terms

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