vâng

See also: vang, Vang, vàng, and vắng

Vietnamese edit

Etymology edit

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Particularly: “The original meaning is quite transparently "to obey, to follow". The Nôm characters all have 邦 (MC paewng) (SV: bang) as phonetic, so the current ‹v-› is the result of lenition. Based on the character 𢀥 (巨 (MC gjoX) + 邦 (MC paewng)), it might be tempting to reconstruct the onset *k-p-.”

A cognate is found in Eastern Cham peng (“to obey”) (Shin'e & Sakaya, 2014), which might be a rather late Vietnamese loan as suggested by its monosyllabic shape.