thốt nốt
Vietnamese
Etymology
Shorto (2006) traces Vietnamese reflex back to Proto-Mon-Khmer *tn(oo)t ~ tnu(u)t (“sugar palm”), though he proposes that Vietnamese may have been loaned from Khmu, by comparing thốt with tŭt (Thin) & tu:t "plant, tree, trunk, stem" (Yuan). Other cognates are Khmer ត្នោត (tnaot), and Central Mnong tɒ:m no:t.[1]
The cluster-breaking mechanism, responsible for doublets like thằn lằn "(lizard") and trăn ("python")[2] (from Proto-Vietic *k-lən, from Proto-Mon-Khmer *t₁lan (“python”)) might also have broken thốt nốt's proto-form's *tn- cluster as well.
Pronunciation
- (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [tʰot̚˧˦ not̚˧˦]
- (Huế) IPA(key): [tʰok̚˦˧˥ nok̚˦˧˥]
- (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA(key): [tʰok̚˦˥ nok̚˦˥]
Noun
(classifier cây) thốt nốt
- sugar palm, palmyra palm, wine palm
References
- Shorto, H. A Mon-Khmer Comparative Dictionary, Ed. Paul Sidwell, 2006. #1019, p. 291
- Trần, Trọng Dương. "Decoding Quốc Âm Thi Tập's hexasyllabic lines from the historical-phonological approach" Hán-Nôm Journal. Vol. 1. 2013 (in Vietnamese).