Khmer edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Mon-Khmer *cʔə(ə)ʔ ~ *cʔə(ə)k ~ *cʔak (to hiccough; to belch). Cognate with Vietnamese nấc.

Pronunciation edit

Orthographic and Phonemic ត្អើក
t̥ʼoek
WT romanisation tʼaək
(standard) IPA(key) /tʔaək/

Verb edit

ត្អើក (tʼaək) (abstract noun ការត្អើក)

  1. to hiccup