köken: From Middle Dutch sluse, from Old Dutch slūsa, from Late Latin exclūsa, sclūsa (“sluice”), from exclūsus, form of exclūdō (“to shut out, to exclude”). Cognate to English sluice.
a lock (used for raising and lowering vessels in a canal or other waterway) · a mechanism that lets someone/something through, a lock · a floodgate (with a large figurative outpouring of something if opened)
köken: Borrowed from German Schleuse, from Dutch sluis, from Middle Dutch slūse, sluise, from Old Dutch slūsa, from Old French escluse, from Late Latin exclūsa, sclūsa, from Latin exclūsus.
köken: Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 港 (SV: cảng). For the vowel correspondence, compare nam vs. nôm (“South”), nạp vs. nộp (“to hand in”), hạp vs. hộp (“box”).
aile: cầu cống, chuột cống, cống rãnh, đường cống, ống cống