chèng ơi

Vietnamese

Alternative forms

Etymology

Likely a blend of Vietnamese chời (“Eye-dialect spelling of trời (“sky, heaven”)”) and mèng, which is possibly from Khmer មេឃ (meik, “sky”),[1] in the interjections mèng ơi and mèng đéc ơi.

Pronunciation

  • (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [t͡ɕɛŋ˨˩ ʔəːj˧˧]
  • (Huế) IPA(key): [t͡ɕɛŋ˦˩ ʔəːj˧˧]
  • (Saigon) IPA(key): [cɛŋ˨˩ ʔəːj˧˧]

Interjection

chèng ơi

  1. (Southern Vietnam) gosh, golly, golly gee, gee whiz
    Synonyms: trời ơi, trời đất ơi, mèng ơi, mèng đéc ơi, chèng đéc ơi

References

  1. ^ Lý Tùng Hiếu (2019) Văn hoá Việt Nam trong ngôn ngữ [Vietnamese Culture in Language]
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