giun

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• gin

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *genus (“jaw”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵénus (“jaw”). Cognate with Welsh gên (“cheek”), English chin, Sanskrit हनु (hánu-), Ancient Greek γένυς (génus), Tocharian A śanweṃ (“jaws”, dual).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡʲiu̯n/

Noun

giun m

1. mouth

Inflection

Masculine u-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	giun, gin	giunL, gin	genaeH
Vocative	giun, gin	giunL, gin	ginu
Accusative	giunN, gin	giunL, gin	ginu
Genitive	genoH, genaH	genoL, genaL	genaeN
Dative	giunL, gin	genaib	genaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Derived terms

• ginach (“greedy”)
• ginól (“jaw”)

Descendants

• Middle Irish: gin
  • Irish: gion

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “gin”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Vietnamese

Etymology

From Northern Middle Vietnamese blun, from Proto-Vietic *p-luːn ~ *p-ruːn, from Proto-Mon-Khmer *(b)ruun. Cognate with Khmer ព្រូន (pruun), Mon မြုန် (pərùn). Originally the Northern form, see giai for the sound change.

Trùn, from a non-Northern Middle Vietnamese form, is still widely used in these dialects.

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [zun˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [jun˧˧]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [jʊwŋ͡m˧˧]
• Homophones: dung, Dung, vun, vung

Noun

(classifier con) giun • (𧉙, 𧑒)

1. a worm (animal)

   tẩy/xổ giun ― to deworm

   ngủ với giun ― to die (literally, “to sleep with worms”)

   • 2011, Trịnh Huy Ninh, transl., Viking hung bạo, translation of Horrible Histories: The Vicious Vikings by Terry Deary and Martin Brown, page 49:

     Nhát gan chỉ núp mà run
     Rồi thì cũng ngủ với giun thôi mà

     Go ahead and hide during every battle
     You will drop dead eventually

Derived terms

• con giun xéo lắm cũng quằn
• dầu giun (Jesuit's tea herb)
• dẽ giun (sandpiper bird)
• giun chỉ (a kind of filarial roundworm)
• giun dẹp (flatworm)
• giun đất (earthworm)
• giun đốt (annelid; segmented worm)
• giun đũa (giant roundworm)
• giun kim (pinworm)
• giun lươn (threadworm)
• giun móc (hookworm)
• giun móc câu
• giun sán (parasitic worms)
• giun tóc (human whipworm)
• giun tròn (roundworm)
• rắn giun

 

See also

• sán (“parasitic flatworms”)