thẩy

See also: thay, thây, thấy, and thầy

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

From Proto-Mon-Khmer *thəjs (“to throw”), cognate with Mon ထွံ (thɒˀ, “to throw away”).

Verb

thẩy (汰, 貸)

(Southern Vietnam) to toss (to throw with an initial upward direction)

Etymology 2

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

Pronoun

thẩy

(Southern Vietnam) Equivalent to thầy ấy (“he; him”).

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