Talk:dù
Latest comment: 6 years ago by Wyang in topic Vietnamese
Vietnamese[edit]
Shorto reconstructed the proto-Mon-Khmer term for "umbrella" as *juʔ (> Khmer យូ (yuu) and Bahnar du). I doubt the Vietnamese term directly derived from this source, could it be borrowed from a neighbor Mon-Khmer language? PhanAnh123 (talk) 06:43, 21 December 2017 (UTC)
- @PhanAnh123 It definitely seems likely, considering the tone mismatch with PMK and dialectal distribution of the sense "umbrella" (where d is pronounced /j/). It could be from Khmer. Do you know if it is used in this sense in dialects other than the southern dialect? Wyang (talk) 10:51, 21 December 2017 (UTC)