Lý Sơn

Vietnamese edit

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Lý Sơn

Etymology edit

Superficially Sino-Vietnamese word from 理 and 山.

The first element of the name is the phonetic rendering of the tên Nôm cù lao Ré using Chinese character. cù lao (“islet”) +‎ ré (“a plant called ré (possibly Alpinia tonkinensis)”). Cù lao Ré is the largest of the three islands (the archipelago).

Pronunciation edit

(Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [li˧˦ səːn˧˧]
(Huế) IPA^(key): [lɪj˨˩˦ ʂəːŋ˧˧] ~ [lɪj˨˩˦ səːŋ˧˧]
(Saigon) IPA^(key): [lɪj˦˥ ʂəːŋ˧˧] ~ [lɪj˦˥ səːŋ˧˧]

Proper noun edit

Lý Sơn

Lý Sơn (an island district in Quảng Ngãi, Vietnam)
An archipelago of Vietnam