nhăm
See also: Appendix:Variations of "nham"
Vietnamese
editEtymology
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.
Pronunciation
editNumeral
editnhăm
- Northern Vietnam form of lăm