đểu

Vietnamese edit

Etymology edit

Trần (2004) (apud Vương, 2021) proposes that đểu initially meant a "porter using carrying pole"; both đểu and đểu cáng (“porters”) (compound of đểu & cáng (“palanquin > palanquin-porter”)) now denotes "scoundrel, cad" because poorly-educated porters often dealt unfairly with each other and competed with each other for customers by means of violence and cheating.^[1]

Compare also 鳥 (MC tewX) > Sino-Vinamese điểu.

Pronunciation edit

(Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [ʔɗew˧˩]
(Huế) IPA^(key): [ʔɗew˧˨]
(Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [ʔɗew˨˩˦]

Adjective edit

đểu • (搗, 𢞬)

(vulgar) ill-bred; unmannerly; caddish

Derived terms edit

Derived terms

References edit

^ Vương Trung Hiếu (2021) "Lắt léo chữ nghĩa: ‘Đểu cáng’ và ‘cửu vạn’ (Convolution about Words and Meanings)" Báo Thanh Niên Thanh Niên (Youth Newspaper). In Vietnamese

[1] Vương Trung Hiếu (2021) "Lắt léo chữ nghĩa: ‘Đểu cáng’ và ‘cửu vạn’ (Convolution about Words and Meanings)" Báo Thanh Niên Thanh Niên (Youth Newspaper). In Vietnamese

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