vịt

See also: vit, vít, vît, Vít, and Vit

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

  • (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [vit̚˧˨ʔ]
  • (Huế) IPA(key): [vit̚˨˩ʔ]
  • (Saigon) IPA(key): [vɨt̚˨˩˨] ~ [jɨt̚˨˩˨]
  • Homophone: dịch
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Etymology 1

From Proto-Vietic *viːt (“duck”). Compare Central Nicobarese [Nancowry] wet (“duck”).

Alves (2015) suggests a Proto-Tai origin (compare Proto-Tai *pitᴰ, and Proto-Hlai *ɓit, Proto-Ong-Be *ɓitD1). Although he later (Alves, 2021) expresses doubt towards the details of direction of borrowing. These items might just imitative, so there was no borrowing involved from any direction.

Compare also 鴄 (SV: thất).

Noun

(classifier con) vịt • (鴨, 𩿠, 𪆧)

  1. duck (aquatic bird of the family Anatidae)
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Etymology 2

The fact that the shape of the vessel resembles a duck. Semantically, compare ngỗng.

Noun

(classifier cái) vịt

  1. kind of spouted vessel
    vịt dầu ― oil can
    vịt nước mắm ― fish sauce pouring pot
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