trâu

See also: trau and trầu

Vietnamese

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle Vietnamese tlâu, from Proto-Vietic *c-luː. Cognate with Nghệ An/Hà Tĩnh dialects tru, Muong tlu.

Shorto (2006) proposes a connection between Vietic *c-luː and Proto-Mon-Khmer *krpiʔ ~ *krpiiw ~ *krpuʔ ~ *(kr)puh . Blench (2012) reconstructs Proto-Austroasiatic *k.r.pu.y, whose Proto-Vietic descendant lost *-/b ~ p/- medial and changed *-/r/- to -/l/-; resulting in *k.l.Vw structure. Cognates outside Vietic include Proto-Bahnaric *kpɨw, Khmer ក្របី (krɑbəy), Chong kpaːw (SEALang) & possibly Mon ပြေၚ် (preaŋ) (Blench)

According to Ferlus (2013) Khmer ឆ្លូវ (chləw, “Year of the Ox”) was borrowed from an extinct conservative Northern Vietic language.

Pronunciation

Noun

(classifier con) trâu (㺏, 𤛠, 𤠋)

  1. a water buffalo (large ungulate)
    trâu trắng
    an albino water buffalo

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