薸

Meanings

Etymology

Possibly related to 漂 (OC *pʰew, “to float; to drift”) (Liu, 1999). Norman and Mei (1976) suggest instead that this word is of Austroasiatic origin, comparing it to Vietnamese bèo (“duckweed”), which they further relate to Mon ဗေဝ် (“to ride low in the water”) (< Proto-Mon-Khmer *ber (“to float”)). However, Sagart (2008) counts it among "either East Asian areal words if not Chinese words in disguise". So the loan direction might have been in reverse, i.e. from Old Chinese into Vietic.

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