nhặng

Vietnamese

Etymology

Possibly non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 蠅 (“fly”, SV: dăng). If true, then:

  • It is a doublet of Vietnamese lằng (“common green bottle fly”).
  • Its nặng-tone (instead of expected huyền) has resulted from either borrowing from a regional Chinese dialect (see tạnh), or indirect borrowing (see tiếng), or an irregular pre-Middle Chinese sound change (see vẹn and mựa).

Pronunciation

  • (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [ɲaŋ˧˨ʔ]
  • (Huế) IPA(key): [ɲaŋ˨˩ʔ]
  • (Saigon) IPA(key): [ɲaŋ˨˩˨]

Noun

(classifier con) nhặng • (蠅, 𧔛)

  1. flies in the Calliphoridae family

Verb

nhặng • (󰃐, 𡃌)

  1. to make a fuss

Derived terms

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