nẩu

Vietnamese

Alternative forms

• nẫu

Etymology

Contraction of nậu (“band; gang”) + the demonstrative ấy (“that”) in the southern dialects, with the latter manifested as the hỏi tone after monosyllabification.

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [nəw˧˩]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [nəw˧˨]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [nəw˨˩˦]

Pronoun

nẩu

1. (Bình Định, Phú Yên) he; she; they

Derived terms

• Nẩu