ròu᷄

Middle Vietnamese

Etymology

From Proto-Vietic *-roːŋ, from Old Chinese 龍 (OC *b·roŋ, *mroːŋ, “dragon”).

Noun

ròu᷄ (蠬)

1. dragon

Descendants

• Vietnamese: rồng (蠬)

References

• Alexandre de Rhodes (1651) “ròu᷄”, in Dictionarium Annamiticum Lusitanum et Latinum (in Middle Vietnamese, Latin, and Portuguese), Rome: Propaganda Fide