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Vietnamese
Etymology
Borrowed from Kra-Dai, compare Baha ŋu¹¹ (“to sleep”) and Proto-Hlai *hŋuːɦ (“to sleep, to lie down”) (whence ŋow²~kaw²~kʰoː²~kɔː² across modern lects and Jiamao ŋɔ⁴).
Some of the conservative Vietic languages (namely, Thavung) use the cognates of the Vietnamese word nằm (“to lie”) with semantic extension to "to sleep", along with "to lie".
Pronunciation
Verb
ngủ • (㬳, 𥄭, 𥄬, 𪿀)
- (intransitive) to sleep
- đi ngủ ― to go to bed/sleep
- ngủ gật/gục ― to doze
- ngủ trưa ― to nap at noon
- ngủ nướng ― to sleep in
- ngủ với ― to sleep with
Derived terms