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cầu vồng
a word from vocabulary
Vietnamese
by
Mark Alves
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Word form
cầu vồng
LWT meaning(s)
the rainbow
Word meaning
the rainbow
Analyzability
analyzable compound
Gloss
bridge curved
Age
Tang Dynasty [24] (700–1000)
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Loanword Information
Borrowed status
3. perhaps borrowed
Comments
While cầu is a Chinese borrowing, there is only a possibility that vồng is a nativized form of the synonymous Tang Dynasty literary Sino-Vietnamese reading hồng.
Source words
虹, hóng
'rainbow'
Chinese
Effect
No information
Salience
Present in pre-contact environment
Contact situation
Via spoken contact [24]
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