ẻm

Vietnamese

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Pronoun

ẻm

1. (Southern Vietnam) she; her (person of a not much younger age than the speaker)