đa

See also: Appendix:Variations of "da"

Vietnamese edit

Pronunciation edit

(Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [ʔɗaː˧˧]
(Huế) IPA^(key): [ʔɗaː˧˧]
(Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [ʔɗaː˧˧]

Etymology 1 edit

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Particularly: “I'm not sure if the form da is still used in any Northern or Southern dialect where it should be native, or is it already completely replaced by the Central đa. It seems that đa first spread to the Northern dialects and then only spread to Southern dialects within the last 130 years or so.”

The Northern Middle Vietnamese form dĕa is attested in Dictionarium Annamiticum Lusitanum et Latinum (1651), points to the earlier form *-taː. The "modern" Northern-Southern reflex da is attested in Dictionarium anamitico-latinum (1838) and continued to be used as late as works of Hồ Biểu Chánh from the 1920s.

Considering that de Rhodes' dictionary was chiefly based on one or several Northern dialects that had undergone lenition quite throughout, the modern form đa without lenition might have spread from a Central dialect less affected by it.

Alternative forms edit

(Northern Vietnam, Southern Vietnam, likely obsolete) da

Noun edit

(classifier cây) đa • (栘)

(botany) banyan

Etymology 2 edit

Sino-Vietnamese word from 多.

Compound part edit

đa

(only in compounds) multi-; poly-; many

đa

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