trước
Vietnamese edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [t͡ɕɨək̚˧˦]
- (Huế) IPA(key): [ʈɨək̚˦˧˥]
- (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA(key): [ʈɨək̚˦˥]
Audio (Hồ Chí Minh City) (file)
Etymology 1 edit
From Middle Vietnamese tlước, from Proto-Vietic *k-laːk. Cognate with Malieng kələak⁸. Related to Proto-Katuic *kaliiʔ (“forehead”) (whence Western Bru kali̤aʔ).
Attested in Phật thuyết đại báo phụ mẫu ân trọng kinh (佛說大報父母恩重經) as 略 (MC ljak) (modern SV: lược) and 畧, alternative form of 略 (MC ljak) (modern SV: lược).
Alternative forms edit
- (certain coastal Northern dialects, endangered) tước (dialects with /ʈ/-/t/ merger)
Preposition edit
trước • (畧, 𠓀, 𨎠, , 𱏯, 𱐨, 略, 𠠩)
- before (earlier than in time)
- in front of
Adverb edit
trước • (畧, 𠓀, 𨎠, , 𱏯, 𱐨, 略, 𠠩)
See also edit
Derived terms
Etymology 2 edit
Attested in the Dictionarium Anamitico-Latinum (1838), Đại Nam Quấc âm tự vị (1895) as a Vietnamese morpheme, and in Tam Tự Kinh diễn nghĩa (1917) as the Sino-Vietnamese reading of 竹 (MC trjuwk).
Compare phúc vs. phước, phụng vs. phượng.
Noun edit
(classifier cây) trước
- (obsolete) Southern Vietnam form of trúc (“(kind of) bamboo”)
- 1895, Huình Tịnh Của, Đại Nam Quấc âm tự vị: