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Trẻ con làm rồng rắn
Children play Dragon and Snake game.

VOCABULARY
OF THE
COCHINCHINESE LANGUAGE,
WITH MARGINAL NOTES
SHOWING ITS RELATION TO THE CHINESE
___________________________

from A Dissertation on the Nature and Character of the Chinese System of Writing, by Peter Stephen Du Ponceau, in a letter to John Vaughan, Esq., American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, 1838. Pp. 139-184 & 5 plates of Cochinchinese ideogram illustration.

Reformatted by Ngô Thanh Nhàn (US), Mai Bá Triều (Belgium) & Lương Thị Hạnh (Nôm Na Group, Việt Nam): (a) the second column Chars. is inserted to reflect the corresponding ideograms in the plates, and (b) the fourth line in column Cochinchinese in square brackets to reflect the current spelling with accents for the entry heading on line 1.


VI.—Of Clothing.

172.

袄

Ao.
L’habit.
The coat.
[áo]

Yaou, the earth producing things out of season. M. 2. 770.

173.

袄 冲

Ao trong.
Les habits de dessous.
The under clothes.
[áo trong]

[Tchong, an infant, (parvolus.) – Tchong-tchong, hanging ornaments, (dicitur de ornamentis pendulis.)] G. 672.

174.

袄 外

Ao ngoai.
Les habits extérieurs.
The outward clothes.
[áo ngoài]

A. See above, 172.
B. Ouay, [or way,] without (foras.) G. 1786.

175.

񪀍

Non.
Le chapeau.
The hat.
[nón]

*

176.

巾

Khon.
Le mouchoir; tous les linges.
The handkerchief and all other linen.
[khăn]

Tchong, within, (intus) G. 26.

177.

񠮋

Quan.
Les culottes.
The breeches.
[quần 裙]

The group is pronounced kouan, [kwan.]

178.

𦂄

Giay.
Les souliers.
The shoes.
[giày 񠑈]

Khiay, coarse silk. M. 3. 23.

179.

鉃

Nut.
Les boutons.
The buttons.
[nút 𨨷]

Chi, the end or head of an arrow. M. 3. 23.

Preliminary Observations by M. de la Palun
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