bạch tuộc

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Vietnamese

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Etymology

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Probably a non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 八足 (eight feet, SV: bát túc) or non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 百足 (one hundred feet, SV: bách túc). The first is more biologically likely but the second is more phonologically sound.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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(classifier con) bạch tuộc

  1. an octopus (mollusc)