trổ
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Vietnamese
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From Proto-Vietic *p-loh (“to blossom”), a prefixed form of *ʔa-loh (“to go out”) (whence Chut [Rục] loh¹ ("to go out")). Cognate with Chut [Rục] bloh¹.
The Northern form giỗ (now obsolete?) appeared in the Cách trí giáo khoa thư (革智教科書), composed in the 1920s. See also the triplet giồng (Northern), lôông ((North) Central), trồng (Southern).
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[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]Attested as blổ in the Dictionarium Annamiticum Lusitanum et Latinum (1651).
Verb
[edit]- to chisel