nẩu

Vietnamese edit

Alternative forms edit

nẫu

Etymology edit

Contraction of nậu (“band; gang”) + the demonstrative ấy (“that”) in the southern dialects, with the latter manifested as the hỏi tone after monosyllabification.

Pronunciation edit

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

Pronoun edit

nẩu

(Bình Định, Phú Yên) he; she; they

Derived terms edit

Nẩu