gẻ

See also: Appendix:Variations of "ge"

Middle Vietnamese

Alternative forms

• iẻ

Etymology

From Proto-Vietic *k-cɛh (“rag”); cognate with Muong ché.

Noun

gẻ

1. rag, dust cloth

   lếy gẻ mà ꞗá áo

   to take a rag and patch a dress with it

2. (cloth) body (comparative viscosity, solidity, or substance)

   Ꞗóc này tốt gẻ.

   This piece of silk is full of body.

   ꞗĕải tốt gẻ

   silk full of body

Descendants

• Vietnamese: giẻ

References

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