ngủ

See also: Appendix:Variations of "ngu"

Vietnamese edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Kra-Dai, compare Baha ŋu¹¹ (“to sleep”) and Proto-Hlai *hŋuːɦ (“to sleep, to lie down”) (whence ŋow²~kaw²~kʰoː²~kɔː² across modern lects and Jiamao ŋɔ⁴).

Some of the conservative Vietic languages (namely, Thavung) use the cognates of the Vietnamese word nằm (“to lie”) with semantic extension to "to sleep", along with "to lie".

Pronunciation edit

(Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [ŋu˧˩]
(Huế) IPA^(key): [ŋʊw˧˨]
(Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [ŋʊw˨˩˦]
Audio (Hồ Chí Minh City) (file)

Verb edit

ngủ • (㬳, 𥄭, 𥄬, 𪿀)

(intransitive) to sleep
đi ngủ ― to go to bed/sleep

ngủ gật/gục ― to doze

ngủ trưa ― to nap at noon

ngủ nướng ― to sleep in

ngủ với ― to sleep with

Derived terms edit

Derived terms