This is a bump with a few small edits of an older post that has become seasonally relevant !
Continuing the #cicada theme since its summer in my hemisphere
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A note on the Vietnamese. Some dictionaries list the Vietnamese NON sinitic word and not the SV SinoVietnamese "Literary" equivalent so this is one case of Sinitic loanwords not dominating the Austroasiatic original ! Japanese haiku poets also prefer to use SEMI over SJ SinoJapnese SEN.
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