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Tày
Etymology
From Proto-Mon-Khmer *bəɓeʔ (“goat”), of onomatopoeic origin. Cognate with Khmer ពពែ (pɔpɛɛ), Mon ဗ္ၜေံ, Nyah Kur แพะ, Chong แพ่ะ, Thai แพะ (pɛ́).
Pronunciation
Noun
(classifier tua) bẻ (𬌱)
- goat
- bẻ xảu ― female baby goat
- bẻ xeng ― male baby goat
- dú đai bặng bẻ bấu pjoóc. ― to rove like an unleashed goat
Nồm tu bẻ kin van.- The milk that the kid (baby goat) drinks is sweet.
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
Etymology
From Proto-Vietic *pɛh (“to break in two, to pick”), from Proto-Mon-Khmer *pih ~ *peh ~ *pɛh. Cognate with Arem pɛh, Khmu pɛh, Khmer បេះ (beh), Semai pèh.
Pronunciation
Verb
bẻ • (𢯏, 披)
- to break; to snap
- bẻ đôi ― to break/snap in two
- một chữ bẻ đôi (cũng/còn) không biết ― to be illiterate / poorly educated (literally, “would not be able to even recognize a character broken in two”)
- một nốt nhạc bẻ đôi (cũng/còn) không biết ― to be musically illiterate (literally, “would not be able to even recognize a musical note broken in two”)
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