Cuội

Vietnamese Etymology vi Nguyễn Đổng Chi stated that Cuội, the man sitting under a tree in the Moon, had been a different folkloric person than Cuội, the habitually lying man or boy; yet those two eventually merged into one, becoming a habitually lying man or boy sitting under a tree in the Moon. Nguyễn Đổng Chi 2000 Kho tàng truyện cổ tích Việt Nam I (collections I, II, III) 457, 903 According to vi Nguyễn Hùng Vĩ: The Man in the Moon's name Cuội is related to vi cội roots and element cối (from vi mkh-vie-pro *koːjʔ plant; vegetation and fossilized in vi cây cối cây cối); 2014 Văn Việt Nguyễn Hùng Vĩ Từ điển cũng... cuội https://vanviet.info/nghien-cuu-phe-binh/tu-dien-cung-cuoi/ https://web.archive.org/web/20260125055219/https://vanviet.info/nghien-cuu-phe-binh/tu-dien-cung-cuoi/ 25 January 2026 The folkloric habitual liar's name Cuội is a 拐 to abduct; to misappropriate quải n y; Vĩ also notes that the folkloric habitual liar's proper name once became a generic noun denoting a habitual liar, recorded as «quội» in Alexandre de Rhodes's Dictionarium Annamiticum Lusitanum et Latinum; w:Alexandre de Rhodes w:Dictionarium Annamiticum Lusitanum et Latinum 1651 627-628 https://vi.wikisource.org/wiki/Trang%3ADictionarium_Annamiticum_Lusitanum_et_Latinum_(Bayerische_Staatsbibliothek).pdf/324 He also critiques many lexicographers like Pierre Pigneau de Behaine, Gustave Hue, Georges Cordier, J. F. M. Génibrel, Huỳnh Tịnh Của, and Trương Vĩnh Ký for mistakenly glossing «cuội» as "echo". Neither is related to vi cuội pebble. Pronunciation vi cuội Proper noun Cuội vi folklore a man sitting under a tree in the moon inspired by a Lunar pareidolia lunar pareidolia vi folklore a habitually lying man or boy vi folklore a habitually lying man or boy sitting under a tree in the moon vi 南交古金里巷歌謠註解<tr:Nam Giao cổ kim lý hạng ca dao chú giải><t:Past & Present Folk-ballads from the Hamlets and Alleyways of Jiao[zhi] in the South - Annotated> 162a 侩𦖑𧡊呐儈唭𪽝𫨩呐𠲝沛𡎢挹𣘃 Cuội nghe thấy nói Cuội cười,Bởi hay nói dối, phải ngồi ấp cây. Hearing that, Cuội smiled.For lying so often, he must sit hugging the tree. Verb Cuội vi humorous to en backtrackvi Derived terms vi nhăng cuội References vi Fictional characters vi eponyms