English
Pleiku
Pleiku comes from Vietnamese Pleiku, and goes back to jra Plơi Kơdưr.
- jramodernPlơi Kơdưrliterally ‘northern or high village’
- VietnamesemodernPleiku
- Englishearliest quotation 1971same form
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
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- jramodernPlơi Kơdưrliterally ‘northern or high village’
- VietnamesemodernPleiku
- Englishearliest quotation 1971same form
Earliest quotation: 1971, Lyndon Johnson, The Vantage Point: “There was strong evidence that the strategists in Hanoi…”
Every English word from jra Plơi Kơdưr
Today it means
name A city in the central highland region of Vietnam.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / jra Plơi Kơdưr / Pleiku