người ngoài hành tinh
Vietnamese
editEtymology
editLiterally “person from outside the planet”, erroneous calque of Chinese 外星人 (ngoại tinh nhân, literally “person from an ‘outside’ (another) planet”)
Pronunciation
edit- (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [ŋɨəj˨˩ ŋwaːj˨˩ hajŋ̟˨˩ tïŋ˧˧]
- (Huế) IPA(key): [ŋɨj˦˩ ŋwaːj˦˩ hɛɲ˦˩ tɨn˧˧]
- (Saigon) IPA(key): [ŋɨj˨˩ ŋwaːj˨˩ han˨˩ tɨn˧˧]
Noun
edit- an extraterrestrial being; an alien