viết

See also: viet, Viet, Viet., and Việt

Vietnamese

Etymology

Contra Alves (2017), the relationship between this word and 筆 (OC *p.[r]ut) (B-S) is very tenuous. He proposed the existence of a prefix to interpret both the discrepancy in part-of-speech and lenition. However, there was no such verbalizer prefix in Vietic, and among verb-noun pairs, the general direction for semantic extension in Vietnamese is verb > noun.

Attested as Northern Middle Vietnamese ꞗiét, viét in the Dictionarium Annamiticum Lusitanum et Latinum (1651).

Pronunciation

  • (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [viət̚˧˦]
  • (Huế) IPA(key): [viək̚˦˧˥]
  • (Saigon) IPA(key): [viək̚˦˥] ~ [jiək̚˦˥]
  • Homophone: giết (Southern Vietnam)
  • Audio (Saigon):(file)

Verb

viết • (曰)

  1. to write
    Synonyms: ghi, chép

Noun

(classifier cây) viết

  1. (Southern Vietnam) non-chalk handheld writing instrument
    Synonym: bút
    một cây viết chì ― a pencil

Derived terms

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