Fascinating article, that
http://www.vny2k.com/vny2k/SiniticVietnamese.htm
M.Kelkar should like its account of the incredibly complicated genesis
of the Vietnamese language; wonder if IE was similarly affected.
Anyway, on the continuing cow saga
http://www.vny2k.com/vny2k/SiniticVietnamese3.htm
"
"trâu" .. níu (water buffalo) (SV ngu.u) [ M .. níu < MC n,j&w < OC
*n,uj& | FQ .. | According to Starostin : bovine, cattle, cow, ox. For
*n,- cf. Xiamen, Chaozhou gu2, Fuzhou n,u2, Jianou niu2.]
Torsten