vá

vá

1. (reintegrationist norm) inflection of ir:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

• Rhymes: -a

vá alternate of bìŋ

1. to deny, to refute

   Pyə̌ ghɔ́m nwə́ é vá wɔ́k. ― He/she refuted what we said.

• Erika Eichholzer (editor) et al, Dictionnaire ghomala’ (2002)

• IPA^(key): /vauː/
• Rhymes: -auː

From Old Norse vá (whence also vo), from Proto-Germanic *waiwō and *wanhō.

vá f (genitive singular vár or váar, no plural)

1. (literary) danger

• náttúruvá

Borrowed from English wow.

vá

1. wow!

• Ásgeir Blöndal Magnússon (1989) Íslensk orðsifjabók, Reykjavík: Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies, →ISBN (Available at Málið.is under the “Eldri orðabækur” tab.)

vá

1. first/third-person singular past active indicative of vega

From Latin vādam and Latin vādat.

• (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): [ˈβa]
• Rhymes: -a
• Hyphenation: vá

vá

1. inflection of ir:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [vaː˧˦]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [vaː˨˩˦]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [vaː˦˥] ~ [jaː˦˥]

From Proto-Vietic *k-paːʔ (“to sew, to mend”), from Old Chinese 補 (OC *[Cə]-pˤaʔ) (B-S) (SV: bổ). Cognate with Muong pả.

Attested as Northern Middle Vietnamese ꞗĕá, ꞗá (already undergone lenition) in Dictionarium Annamiticum Lusitanum et Latinum (1651).

• (North Central Vietnam) bá (no lenition)

vá • (播, 𦀪)

1. to sew, to mend (to repair a tear in clothing)

(classifier mảnh, miếng) vá

1. patch

Compare Khmer វែក (vɛɛk).

• (Southern Vietnam) dá

(classifier cái) vá

1. (soup) ladle