Abstract

This article examines words expressing sweet potato parts that reflect meronymy in Vietnamese and Lao. The underlying theory of the article is the conceptual concept and the meaningful relationships of the word in the system. The research methods used by the article are the field linguistics method, the descriptive method, and the comparison-comparison method. The article surveyed 87 words in Vietnamese and 80 words in Lao reflecting the meronymy of the sweet potato plant. The article establishes lexical blanks of words representing sweet potato plants in Vietnamese and Lao. Besides, the linguistic picture of the word expressing the sweet potato plant parts in Vietnamese and Lao is demonstrated. Hence, the article clarifies the similarities and differences in thinking and cultural characteristics between the Vietnamese and Laos.

Keywords

The relationship of the meaning of words, words expressing sweet potato plant parts, Vietnamese, Lao