sắt

See also: Appendix:Variations of "sat"

Middle Vietnamese

Etymology

From Proto-Vietic *k-rac, from Chinese 鐵 (OC *l̥ʰiːɡ).

Noun

sắt

iron

Descendants

Vietnamese: sắt

References

De Rhodes, Alexandre (1651), “sắt”, Dictionarium Annamiticum Lusitanum et Latinum.

Vietnamese

Chemical element
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Etymology

From Middle Vietnamese sắt, from Proto-Vietic *k-rac; cognate with Muong Bi khách and Chut [Rục] kʰlat⁷. Borrowed from some form of Chinese 鐵 (OC *l̥ˤik) (B-S) (SV: thiết). Compare Lakkia kʰjãk⁵⁵ (Pain, 2020).[1]

Attested in Phật thuyết đại báo phụ mẫu ân trọng kinh (佛說大報父母恩重經) as 可列 (MC khaX ljet) (modern SV: khả liệt).

Pronunciation

(Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [sat̚˧˦]
(Huế) IPA^(key): [ʂak̚˦˧˥] ~ [sak̚˦˧˥]
(Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [ʂak̚˦˥] ~ [sak̚˦˥]

Noun

sắt • (𨫊)

iron (chemical element)

Derived terms

Derived terms

đường sắt
sắt đá
sắt thép

References

Pain, Frederic. "”Giao Chỉ” (”Jiāozhǐ” 交趾) as a diffusion center of Chinese diachronic changes: syllabic weight contrast and phonologisation of its phonetic correlates".

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