ꞗợ

Middle Vietnamese

Etymology

Either from Proto-Vietic *-bəːʔ, from Proto-Mon-Khmer *(ʔ)boʔ (“mother”), or from Old Chinese 婦 (OC *bɯʔ).

Noun

ꞗợ (𡞕, 𡢼)

1. wife
2. married woman

Descendants

• Vietnamese: vợ

References

• Alexandre de Rhodes (1651) “ꞗợ”, in Dictionarium Annamiticum Lusitanum et Latinum (in Middle Vietnamese, Latin, and Portuguese), Rome: Propaganda Fide