Vẹc Sai

Vietnamese

Alternative forms

• Vẹc-xai

Etymology

Named by Vietnamese-American residents in the 1970s after the Versailles Arms apartment complex where they first settled upon arriving in New Orleans.

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [vɛk̚˧˨ʔ saːj˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [vɛk̚˨˩ʔ ʂaːj˧˧] ~ [vɛk̚˨˩ʔ saːj˧˧]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [vɛk̚˨˩˨ ʂaːj˧˧] ~ [jɛk̚˨˩˨ saːj˧˧]

Proper noun

Vẹc Sai

1. (US) Versailles (a neighborhood of New Orleans, Louisiana, United States)

Related terms

• Véc-xai

References

• S. Leo Chiang (actor) (2009), A Village called Versailles, →ISBN, →OCLC