ngòi

See also: ngoi, ngói, ngõi, ngôi, ngồi, ngơi, and ngợi

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 源 (“spring, source”, SV: nguyên)[1]

Noun

ngòi • (外, 𣳢, 𤀖)

  1. (archaic) canal
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References
  1. Alves (歐邁強), M. J. (2016). "Identifying Early Sino-Vietnamese Vocabulary via Linguistic, Historical, Archaeological, and Ethnological Data" (早期漢越語詞彙的確認—— 來自語言學、歷史學、考古學、民族學的資料證據), Bulletin of Chinese Linguistics, 9(2), 264-295. doi: https://doi.org/10.1163/2405478X-00902007

Etymology 2

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Noun

ngòi • (𤐜, 𣰏, 󱪩)

  1. primer, fuse, match
    ngòi bút ― nib of a pen
  2. stinger of bees and wasps
    Ong mật chích để lại ngòi.
    Honey bees left behind their stinger after stinging.
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