đất

See also: Appendix:Variations of "dat"

Middle Vietnamese

Đất

Etymology

From Proto-Vietic *tət (“water”).

Noun

đất

earth; soil; dirt

Descendants

Vietnamese: đất

References

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

Vietnamese

Etymology

From Middle Vietnamese đất, from Proto-Vietic *tət. Cognate with Tho [Cuối Chăm] tʌt⁷.

The set comprised of Bahnar teh, Pacoh cuteq, Khmu pteʔ, Mang teː⁶, Mon တိ (tɔeˀ), Khmer ដី (dəy), etc. are most likely lookalikes, since Vietic has a *-t that cannot be reconciled with the rest.

Pronunciation

(Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [ʔɗət̚˧˦]
(Huế) IPA^(key): [ʔɗək̚˦˧˥]
(Saigon) IPA^(key): [ʔɗək̚˦˥]

Noun

đất • (坦, 𡐙, 怛)

earth; soil; dirt
land