trâu
Vietnamese
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Middle Vietnamese tlâu, from Proto-Vietic *c-luː. Cognate with Nghệ An/Hà Tĩnh dialects tru, Muong tlu.
Shorto (2006) proposes a connection between Vietic *c-luː and Proto-Mon-Khmer *krpiʔ ~ *krpiiw ~ *krpuʔ ~ *(kr)puh . Blench (2012) reconstructs Proto-Austroasiatic *k.r.pu.y, whose Proto-Vietic descendant lost *-/b ~ p/- medial and changed *-/r/- to -/l/-; resulting in *k.l.Vw structure. Cognates outside Vietic include Proto-Bahnaric *kpɨw, Khmer ក្របី (krɑbəy), Chong kpaːw (SEALang) & possibly Mon ပြေၚ် (preaŋ) (Blench)
According to Ferlus (2013) Khmer ឆ្លូវ (chləw, “Year of the Ox”) was borrowed from an extinct conservative Northern Vietic language.
Pronunciation
- (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [t͡ɕəw˧˧]
- (Huế) IPA(key): [ʈəw˧˧]
- (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA(key): [ʈəw˧˧]
- Homophone: châu
Noun
(classifier con) trâu (㺏, 𤛠, 𤠋)
- a water buffalo (large ungulate)
- trâu trắng
- an albino water buffalo
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