zong
Mandarin
Romanization
zong
Usage notes
- English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.
Mauritian Creole
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /zoŋ/
Noun
zong
- finger nail; toe nail.
Yola
Etymology
From Middle English song, from Old English sang.
References
- Jacob Poole (1867), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, page 82
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