nhăm
See also: Appendix:Variations of "nham"
Vietnamese
editPronunciation
editEtymology 1
editNorthern form with the commonly seen nasalization of lateral, compare lớn vs. nhớn, lời vs. nhời, lài vs. nhài, lạt vs. nhạt.
This sound shift originally started as nasal assimilation within the proximity of the phoneme /m/: *m(V)l > /mɲ/ > /ɲ/ (as seen even in the loanword nhài); as lăm almost occurs only after mươi, the expected shift occurred.
Numeral
editnhăm
- Northern Vietnam form of lăm
Etymology 2
editVerb
editnhăm
- (transitive, rare, usually in compounds) Alternative form of lăm (“to intend to do something”)