cờ vây
Vietnamese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]cờ (“board game with pieces or tokens”) + vây (“to encircle; to surround”), calque of Chinese 圍棋 / 围棋 (vi kì). Compare Japanese 囲碁 (igo).
Attested in the Dictionarium Anamitico Latinum (1773 manuscript), listed alongside cờ tướng, cờ tiên and cờ song lục as various board games.[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [kəː˨˩ vəj˧˧]
- (Huế) IPA(key): [kəː˦˩ vəj˧˧]
- (Saigon) IPA(key): [kəː˨˩ vəj˧˧] ~ [kəː˨˩ jəj˧˧]
Noun
[edit]- go (board game)
References
[edit]- ^ [...] (1773) Dictionarium Anamitico Latinum[1] (in Latin), unnumbered page