gần

Alternative forms

 * , ngưn, ngân

Etymology
From. Traditionally regarded as a non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese (SV: ).

There have been some proposals, including Miyake (2015) and Trần Trí Dõi (2016), that this term is not a loanword. The earliest layer of Sinitic loans in Vietic usually show the shift of characteristic of the later stages of Old Chinese. However, there is no motivation for the shift of this to  (Rục kept Vietic *-n as is after all vowels).

In any case, cognate with 🇨🇬 Bi, 🇨🇬 [Rục] təkiɲ¹, 🇨🇬 kɨ̀ɲ.

Adjective

 * 1) near; nearby; close (to)

Adverb

 * 1) nearly; almost