đen tuyền

Vietnamese

Etymology

đen (“black”) +‎ tuyền (全) (“entire, total”); the second element is the expected Sino-Vietnamese reflex of Sinitic 全 (MC dzjwen), fossilized in this compound. In other, more transparent compounds, tuyền had been replaced by the form toàn spreading from Northern Vietnam.

Pronunciation

  • (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [ʔɗɛn˧˧ twiən˨˩]
  • (Huế) IPA(key): [ʔɗɛŋ˧˧ twiəŋ˦˩]
  • (Saigon) IPA(key): [ʔɗɛŋ˧˧ t⁽ʷ⁾iəŋ˨˩]

Adjective

đen tuyền

  1. jet-black
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