gòn

Vietnamese

Etymology

Contrary to the erroneous claim on Wikipedia, the word is not Sino-Vietnamese and ⟨g⟩ is also not a possible initial in Sino-Vietnamese proper, therefore the word might be either native, a vernacular Sinitic loan (either from a regional Sinitic language or is an early, pre-Middle Chinese loan), or a loan from another neighboring language. The Nôm character 棍, as with many other cases, is merely a character formed by phono-semantic matching.

The word might (but unlikely) be the second element in the placename Sài Gòn.

Pronunciation

(Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [ɣɔn˨˩]
(Huế) IPA^(key): [ɣɔŋ˦˩]
(Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [ɣɔŋ˨˩]

Noun

(classifier cây) gòn • (棍)

(botany) ceiba
Synonym: bông gòn
(by extension) cotton pad

单词	gòn
释义	gòn Vietnamese Etymology Contrary to the erroneous claim on Wikipedia, the word is not Sino-Vietnamese and ⟨g⟩ is also not a possible initial in Sino-Vietnamese proper, therefore the word might be either native, a vernacular Sinitic loan (either from a regional Sinitic language or is an early, pre-Middle Chinese loan), or a loan from another neighboring language. The Nôm character 棍, as with many other cases, is merely a character formed by phono-semantic matching. The word might (but unlikely) be the second element in the placename Sài Gòn. Pronunciation (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [ɣɔn˨˩] (Huế) IPA^(key): [ɣɔŋ˦˩] (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [ɣɔŋ˨˩] Noun (classifier cây) gòn • (棍) (botany) ceiba Synonym: bông gòn (by extension) cotton pad
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