đủ đủ

Vietnamese

Etymology

Attested in older dictionaries like Dictionarium latino-anamiticum (1838), Manuel de conversation Franco-Tonkinois (1889), Đại Nam quấc âm tự vị (1895), and Vocabulaire français-annamite (1898). It was used alongside the extant form.

Pronunciation

(Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [ʔɗu˧˩ ʔɗu˧˩]
(Huế) IPA^(key): [ʔɗʊw˧˨ ʔɗʊw˧˨]
(Saigon) IPA^(key): [ʔɗʊw˨˩˦ ʔɗʊw˨˩˦]

Noun

(classifier cây, trái, quả) đủ đủ

Obsolete form of đu đủ (“papaya”).