tonkinese
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.32 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
The language of Tonkin; northern Vietnamese.
Example Sentences
- "The Occidental who lives in that splendid house on the Phù-Cam is married to a Tonkinese. It's more than ten years ago he brought her here. He has never had any second wives. He gave his father-in-law a teakwood coffin."
- "A great number of Legionaires had married Tonkineses and had children by them. According to French law, a child born on French soil is a citizen of France, whether the father and mother are French or not, so also in Indo-China[…]"
- "Do not consider bringing home a Tonkinese unless you have time in your life for games[…]"
Etymology
Etymology tree English Tonkin Proto-Indo-European *-iskos Proto-Germanic *-iskaz Proto-West Germanic *-iskbor. Late Latin -iscus ▲ Vulgar Latin -iscus Latin -ēnsis Old French -eisbor. Middle English -eys English -ese English Tonkinese From Tonkin + -ese.