Mặt Trời
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See also: mặt trời
Vietnamese
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]A compound of mặt (originally meaning “eye”) + trời (“sky; heavens”), literally “eye of the heavens”, a common metaphor for the Sun in Austroasiatic, Austronesian and Kra-Dai languages in Southeast Asia. Compare Thai ตะวัน (dtà-wan), Malay matahari, Proto-Mon-Khmer *t₂ŋiiʔ (“Sun”) < **[ma]t₂-ŋiiʔ (Benedict, 1976). Cognate with Muong măt tlời.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [mat̚˧˨ʔ t͡ɕəːj˨˩]
- (Huế) IPA(key): [mak̚˨˩ʔ ʈəːj˦˩]
- (Saigon) IPA(key): [mak̚˨˩˨ ʈəːj˨˩]
Proper noun
[edit]- (astronomy) Sun
- Synonym: Thái Dương
- Copy from 18th century, Urtext probably from 12th or 15th century, Phật thuyết đại báo phụ mẫu ân trọng kinh (佛說大報父母恩重經):
𪬪 𠺙 末 𫶸 炪 昌 泊 珊 索 工 圭 渃 㝵 - [Under the] blowing winds and burning Sun, white bones keep decaying on foreign soil.
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