mươi

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See also: muoi, muôi, muối, muỗi, mười, muội, and muồi

Nùng

Noun

mươi

  1. ice

References

Tày

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Tai *ʰmɯəjᴬ. Cognate with Thai เหมือย.

Pronunciation

Noun

mươi (𪜚)

  1. frost; dew
    cuổi thai mươi
    bananas that died from frost
    Mươi lồng tót lai.
    Dew is coming, and it's freezing.

Derived terms

References

  • Hoàng Văn Ma, Lục Văn Pảo, Hoàng Chí (2006) Từ điển Tày-Nùng-Việt [Tay-Nung-Vietnamese dictionary] (in Vietnamese), Hanoi: Nhà xuất bản Từ điển Bách khoa Hà Nội
  • 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

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

A variant of mười (“ten”), perhaps from an originally prefixed form.

Numeral

mươi • (邁, 𨒒, 𱑕, 辻, 𨑮)

  1. (cardinal number, only in compounds with hai (“two”) to chín (“nine”)) -ty
    Synonym: chục
    tám mươi ― eighty
  2. (colloquial) some ten; about ten
Usage notes
  • These two points are applied only when mươi is followed by another numeral:
    • Mươi is very often ellipsed in colloquial speech, so ba mốt (“thirty-one”) and tám sáu (“eighty-six”) are generally more common than the full forms ba "mươi" mốt and tám "mươi" sáu in the daily language.
    • For hai mươi (“twenty”) and ba mươi (“thirty”) specifically, the constracted forms hăm and băm, where mươi is reduced to /m/, are also common, therefore hăm bảy (“twenty-seven”), băm ba (“thirty-three”).
  • However, the decade numerals themselves never undergo any ellipsis or reduction, so hai mươi (“twenty”) when used on itself remains unchanged, never *hăm.
    hai mươi cuốn sách ― twenty books
    *hăm cuốn sách ― twenty books
Derived terms

Numeral

mươi (邁, 𨒒, 𱑕, 辻, 𨑮)

  1. about ten
    mươi ngày ― about ten days
    mươi đồng ― about ten dong

Etymology 2

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Noun

mươi

  1. (rare) frost
    Synonym: sương giá

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