giấc

Vietnamese

Etymology

Cognate with Chut [Mày] pacɤk³ (Babaev & Samarina, 2018).

The Nôm characters for this word has 職 (MC tsyik) (SV: chức) as phonetic, indicating that modern ‹gi-› derived from the lenition of earlier *-c-.

Pronunciation

(Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [zək̚˧˦]
(Huế) IPA^(key): [jək̚˦˧˥]
(Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [jək̚˦˥]

Classifier

giấc • (𥋏, 𦕛)

indicates sleep times and dreams
giấc ngủ ― a sleep period or a nap

giấc mơ/mộng ― a dream

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