đen tuyền
Vietnamese edit
Etymology edit
đen (“black”) + tuyền (全) (“entire, total”); the second element is the expected Sino-Vietnamese reflex of Sinitic 全 (quán), fossilized in this compound. In other, more transparent compounds, tuyền had been replaced by the form toàn spread from Northern Vietnam.
Pronunciation edit
- (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [ʔɗɛn˧˧ twiən˨˩]
- (Huế) IPA(key): [ʔɗɛŋ˧˧ twiəŋ˦˩]
- (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA(key): [ʔɗɛŋ˧˧ t⁽ʷ⁾iəŋ˨˩]