dông
See also: Appendix:Variations of "dong"
Vietnamese edit
Alternative forms edit
- (unetymological spelling) giông
Etymology edit
Cognate with Chut [Mày] katoŋ¹ (Babaev & Samarina, 2018).
The spelling giông appears to arise from hypercorrection and is often attributed to Vũ Trọng Phụng's Giông Tố (1936), but there are plenty of examples of giông that predate the novel; for example, it is attested in the second volume of Nam Kỳ phong tục nhơn vật diễn ca (1909).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
(classifier cơn, con) dông • (溶, 𩄱, 𩘨)
- a thunderstorm
- dông bão / bão dông ― thunderstorms and the like
- đời dông bão ― a struggling life
See also edit
Derived terms