giấc

Vietnamese

Etymology

Cognate with Chut [Mày] pacɤk³ (Babaev & Samarina, 2018).

The Nôm characters for this word has 職 (MC tsyik) (SV: chức) as phonetic, indicating that modern ‹gi-› derived from the lenition of earlier *-c-.

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [zək̚˧˦]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [jək̚˦˧˥]
• (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [jək̚˦˥]

Classifier

giấc • (𥋏, 𦕛)

1. indicates sleep times and dreams

   giấc ngủ ― a sleep period or a nap

   giấc mơ/mộng ― a dream