loan báo

Vietnamese

Etymology

Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 關報 (SV: quan báo). See also loan tin.

The first element here reflects of a form of 關 (MC kwaen) descended from *k.rˤ- instead of *kˤr-.

Nohara (2023)^[1] is an in-depth treatment into the lexeme "egg" in Old Chinese, presenting etymologically related pairs such as 卵 (MC lwanX, “egg”) (lateral onset, from *k.rˤ-) and 𢺄 (“fish egg”) (velar onset, from *kˤr-) as evidence for complex onsets/consonant clusters in Old Chinese.

Pronunciation

(Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [lwaːn˧˧ ʔɓaːw˧˦]
(Huế) IPA^(key): [lwaːŋ˧˧ ʔɓaːw˨˩˦]
(Saigon) IPA^(key): [l⁽ʷ⁾aːŋ˧˧ ʔɓaːw˦˥]

Verb

loan báo

to announce; to make known

References

^ Nohara, Masaki. 2023. Old Chinese ‘egg’: More evidence for consonant clusters. In: Language and Linguistics 24:2 (2023), pp. 325–344.

[1] Nohara, Masaki. 2023. Old Chinese ‘egg’: More evidence for consonant clusters. In: Language and Linguistics 24:2 (2023), pp. 325–344.

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