nỏ

See also: Appendix:Variations of "no"

Muong

Etymology

Compare Bahnar nuih (heart), Pnar nod (liver), Riang [Sak] kᵊnuəs² ("heart, mind").

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /nɔ³/

Noun

nỏ

  1. (Mường Bi) heart

References

  • Nguyễn Văn Khang, Bùi Chỉ, Hoàng Văn Hành (2002) Từ điển Mường - Việt (Muong - Vietnamese dictionary)[1], Hanoi: Nhà xuất bản Văn hoá Dân tộc Hà Nội.

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

  • (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [nɔ˧˩]
  • (Huế) IPA(key): [nɔ˧˨]
  • (Saigon) IPA(key): [nɔ˨˩˦]
  • Audio (Hà Nội):(file)

Etymology 1

Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese (crossbow, SV: nỗ).[1] Doublet of .

Noun

(classifier cái, chiếc) nỏ • (, 𱣳)

  1. crossbow
    Synonym:

Etymology 2

From Proto-Vietic *-nɔh.

This word is attested in the poems of Nguyễn Trãi, who was a native of Northern Vietnam, showing that it used to have wider distribution in the past.

Adverb

nỏ • (, )

  1. (North Central Vietnam) not
    Synonyms: không, chẳng, chả
    Tau nỏ biết.
    I don't know.
    • 15th century, Nguyễn Trãi, “寶鏡警戒 Bảo kính cảnh giới 3”, in Quốc âm thi tập (國音詩集):
      固𧵑恒朱吏固通
      積饒𡥵𡥙󱪬
      Có của hằng cho lại có thông,
      Tích nhiều con cháu nỏ trông.
      "Having wealth is everything", it is often thought,
      Accumulate them but the progeny just keep squandering (lit. do not look after them).

References

  1. ^ André-Georges Haudricourt. "Comment reconstruire le chinois archaïque", Word 10(2/3). 351–364 (1954). Reprinted (with additions) 1 in Problèmes de phonologie diachronique: 161-182. Translated in 2017 by Guillaume Jacques. draft