Khmer edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Sanskrit वाक्य (vākya), Pali vākya. Doublet of ពាក្យ (piək).

Pronunciation edit

Orthographic វាក្យ
vāk̥y
Phonemic វា-ក្យៈ
vā-k̥y`
WT romanisation viəkyaʼ
(standard) IPA(key) /ʋiə.ˈkjaʔ/

Noun edit

វាក្យ (viəkyaʼ)

  1. (used only in compounds) word; speech; sentence