tlẻ

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Middle Vietnamese

Adjective

tlẻ

young
- 1651, Alexandre de Rhodes, “Ngày thứ sáu: Thầy Thuốc Cả”, in Phép giảng tám ngày‎, pages 183–184:
  đầy tớ cả thưa ràng: lạy đức Chúa Iesu, đây một con tlẻ còn có nam cái bánh, và hai con cá; mà người ta nhều làm ꞗệy, là bây nhều hột? (Alexandre de Rhodes)
  They all said: “Lord Jesus, here is a youth who has five loaves of bread and five fishes; but there are so many people, how many grains?”

Derived terms

Descendants

Vietnamese: trẻ

References

Alexandre de Rhodes (1651) “tlẻ”, in Dictionarium Annamiticum Lusitanum et Latinum (in Middle Vietnamese, Latin, and Portuguese), Rome: Propaganda Fide

Muong

Etymology

From Proto-Vietic *k-lɛːʔ, from Proto-Mon-Khmer. Cognate with Proto-Katuic *klɛɛ (“stinger of insect, penis”) (whence Phuong kalɛː ("stinger"), Eastern Bru clâi (“penis”)), Proto-Palaungic *kleʔ (“penis”) (whence Riang klɛʔ¹ ("penis")), Nyah Kur láj ("stinger").

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /tlɛ³/

Noun

tlẻ

(Mường Bi) venom

References

Nguyễn Văn Khang, Bùi Chỉ, Hoàng Văn Hành (2002) Từ điển Mường - Việt (Muong - Vietnamese dictionary)‎, Nhà xuất bản Văn hoá Dân tộc Hà Nội

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