cẳng

See also: Appendix:Variations of "cang"

Tày

Pronunciation

• (Thạch An – Tràng Định) IPA^(key): [kaŋ˨˩˧]
• (Trùng Khánh) IPA^(key): [kaŋ˨˦]

Etymology 1

Adjective

cẳng

1. long

   Synonyms: rì, dào

Etymology 2

Verb

cẳng

1. to throw

   Synonyms: bẳn, bén

   cẳng hin ― to throw rocks

References

• Léopold Michel Cadière (1910) Dictionnaire Tày-Annamite-Français [Tày-Vietnamese-French Dictionary]‎ (in French), Hanoi: Impressions d'Extrême-Orient

Vietnamese

Etymology

This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “What exactly is the source though? The non-Sinitic Trans-Himalayan subgroup closest geographically to Vietnamese is Loloish/Ngwi, where this root is pretty much absent.”

From Proto-Vietic *kaŋh (“leg, foot”), from a Sino-Tibetan language. Compare Proto-Karen *khaŋᴮ (“foot; leg”) (whence S'gaw Karen ခီၣ် (khaẁ)), Tibetan རྐང (rkang) (as in རྐང་པ (rkang pa), Western Tamang कङ् (kaŋ, “leg”).

Usually theorized as being from Old Chinese 脛 (OC *m-kʰˤeŋ-s) (B-S) (SV: hĩnh), derived from the same Sino-Tibetan root, but the vowel correspondences is irregular.

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [kaŋ˧˩]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [kaŋ˧˨]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [kaŋ˨˩˦]

Noun

cẳng • (亙, 亘)

1. (chiefly Central Vietnam, Southern Vietnam, colloquial) leg

   Synonyms: chân, giò

Derived terms

• cẳng chân
• cẳng tay
• chân cẳng
• chết thẳng cẳng
• hất cẳng
• rộng cẳng