bây

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See also: bay, Bay, bẫy, bảy, and baþ

Tày

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Noun

(classifiers mạy or mác) bây (𣛥)

  1. Canarium tramdenum

References

  • Lương Bèn (2011) Từ điển Tày-Việt [Tay-Vietnamese dictionary]‎ (in Vietnamese), Thái Nguyên: Nhà Xuất bản Đại học Thái Nguyên
  • Lục Văn Pảo, Hoàng Tuấn Nam (2003) Hoàng Triều Ân, editor, Từ điển chữ Nôm Tày [A Dictionary of (chữ) Nôm Tày]‎ (in Vietnamese), Hanoi: Nhà xuất bản Khoa học Xã hội
  • Léopold Michel Cadière (1910) Dictionnaire Tày-Annamite-Français [Tày-Vietnamese-French Dictionary]‎ (in French), Hanoi: Impressions d'Extrême-Orient

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Proto-Mon-Khmer *piʔ; cognate with Khasi phi, Pacoh ipe, Central Nicobarese ifē and possibly Mon ဗှ်ေ.

Alternative forms

Pronoun

bây

  1. (informal) you (second-person plural)

Etymology 2

Part of the b-series of demonstratives, along with bao, bấy.

Determiner

bây • (拜, 悲, 𣊾, 碑)

  1. of this extent, of this amount
    Con cua này chỉ bây lớn thôi.
    This (species of) crab only grows to this size.
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Derived terms
Vietnamese demonstratives
Proximal
(*-iː) 		Distal 1
(*-iːʔ) 		Distal 2
(*-əːʔ) 		Distal 3/
Remote
(*-ɔːʔ) 		Interrogative
(rime was a rounded
back vowel)
Place, attributive1
n- 		ni
nì
này/nầy
nây 		nấy nớ nọ
(nó) 		nào
Place, nominal2
đ- 		đây đấy
(ấy) 		— đó đâu
Manner
r- 		ri
rày 		— rứa — ru
sao3
Extent 14
b- 		bây bấy — — bao
Extent 25
v- 		vầy vậy — — —
1 Originally can only follow a nominal (being used attributively), hence nơi này (“this place; here”), nơi nào (“where”) (no longer completely true in the modern language).
2 Can be used on its own/is itself nominal, hence đây (“here”), đâu (“where”).
3 From earlier *C-raːw (where *C is nonspecific consonant).
4 Placed before the head: bây nhiêu (“this much”), bấy nhiêu (“that much”), bao nhiêu (“how much”).
5 Placed after the head: nhanh vầy (“this fast”), nhanh vậy (“that fast/so fast”).
Visibility/evidentiality6
Distal
(ngang) 		Remote
(huyền)
Northern-Southern kia
(cơ) 		kìa
(cờ)
Central tê tề
6 Originally, these demonstratives might have been used to assert that something is visible and/or verifiable. They have been bleached quite thoroughly and currently are usually used like other distal demonstratives. The biggest trace of their evidentiality might be in their usage as final particles, often in reduced forms cơ/cờ: ừ đấy về tới Hà Nội, còn những ba cái cầu nữa cơ mà! ("From there to Hanoi, there're still three more bridges to cross!") (Ba ngày luân lạc, 1943).
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