อ้อ

Saek

Noun

อ้อ (transliteration needed)

  1. aunt (younger sister of one's father).

Thai

Pronunciation

Orthographic/Phonemicอ้อ
ɒ ˆ ɒ
RomanizationPaiboonɔ̂ɔ
Royal Instituteo
(standard) IPA(key)/ʔɔː˥˩/(R)

Etymology 1

From Proto-Tai *ʔoːᶜ (reed).[1]

Cognate with Zhuang oj (dialectal).

Noun

อ้อ • (ɔ̂ɔ)

  1. reed (grass).

Etymology 2

Onomatopoeic

Interjection

อ้อ • (ɔ̂ɔ)

  1. oh, ah.

References

  1. ^ Pittayaporn, Pittayawat (2009) The Phonology of Proto-Tai[1], Cornell University PhD dissertation, page 332