ẻm

Vietnamese

Etymology

Contraction of em + the demonstrative ấy (“that”) in the southern dialects, with the latter manifested as the hỏi tone after monosyllabification.

Pronunciation

(Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [ʔɛm˧˩]
(Huế) IPA^(key): [ʔɛm˧˩ʔ]
(Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [ʔɛm˨˩˦]

Pronoun

ẻm

(Southern Vietnam) she; her (person of a not much younger age than the speaker)

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