Thánh Gióng

Etymology
🇰🇲. Dóng is the modern form of a word attested written as in Chinese characters, with typical lenition of medial stop.

Dóng was probably the village name and not the personal name of the character in the legend. The of the village of  was Dóng.

The spelling ‹Gióng› is unetymological but more commonly used than ‹Dóng›. Compare also (as in ), a word now commonly spelled with ‹gi› but attested as  in Middle Vietnamese.

Proper noun

 * , one of the in Vietnamese mythology