thốt nốt

Etymology
Shorto (2006) traces Vietnamese reflex back to, though he proposes that Vietnamese is not inherited but may have been loaned from , by comparing thốt with Thin 🇨🇬 & Yuan 🇨🇬. Other cognates are 🇨🇬, and 🇨🇬.

The cluster-breaking mechanism, responsible for doublets like thằn lằn "(lizard") and trăn ("python") (< < ) might also have broken thốt nốt's proto-form's *tn- cluster as well.

Noun

 * 1) sugar palm, palmyra palm, wine palm