người ngoài hành tinh
Vietnamese edit
Etymology edit
Literally “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˧˧]
- (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA(key): [ŋɨj˨˩ ŋwaːj˨˩ han˨˩ tɨn˧˧]
Noun edit
- an extraterrestrial being; an alien