ngòi

See also: ngoi, ngói, ngõi, ngôi, ngồi, ngơi, and ngợi

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

    Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 源 (“spring, source”, SV: nguyên).[1]

    Noun

    (classifier cái) ngòi • (外, 𣳢, 𤀖)

    1. (archaic or literary) canal
    Derived terms

    References

    1. ^ Alves (歐邁強), M. J. (2016). "Identifying Early Sino-Vietnamese Vocabulary via Linguistic, Historical, Archaeological, and Ethnological Data" (早期漢越語詞彙的確認—— 來自語言學、歷史學、考古學、民族學的資料證據), Bulletin of Chinese Linguistics, 9(2), 264-295. doi: https://doi.org/10.1163/2405478X-00902007

    Etymology 2

    (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

    Noun

    ngòi • (𤐜, 𣰏, 󱪩)

    1. primer, fuse, match
      ngòi bút ― nib of a pen
    2. stinger of bees and wasps
      Ong mật chích để lại ngòi.
      Honey bees left behind their stinger after stinging.
    Derived terms
    This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.