thốt nốt

Vietnamese edit

Etymology edit

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 Thin Khmu [script needed] (tŭt) & Yuan Khmu [script needed] (tu:t, “plant, tree, trunk, stem”). 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 edit

(Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [tʰot̚˧˦ not̚˧˦]
(Huế) IPA^(key): [tʰok̚˦˧˥ nok̚˦˧˥]
(Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [tʰok̚˦˥ nok̚˦˥]

Noun edit

(classifier cây) thốt nốt

sugar palm, palmyra palm, wine palm

References edit

^ 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).

[1] Shorto, H. A Mon-Khmer Comparative Dictionary, Ed. Paul Sidwell, 2006. #1019, p. 291

[2] Trần, Trọng Dương. "Decoding Quốc Âm Thi Tập's hexasyllabic lines from the historical-phonological approach" Hán-Nôm Journal. Vol. 1. 2013 (in Vietnamese).

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