dĕấu

Alternative forms

 * (Northern form with depalatalization)

Etymology
From. Attested in the Dictionarium Annamiticum Lusitanum et Latinum (1651), a dictionary based chiefly on the Northern dialects. As with other words with this initial, the Northern dialects depalatalized this initial ( in the modern dialects) while the Southern dialects defricativized it ( in the modern dialects).

The modern North Central form is not a reflex of this form, but from an earlier form that did not undergo lenition.

Noun

 * 1) mark; sign

Descendants

 * Northern Vietnamese:
 * Southern Vietnamese: