vẹo

See also: veo, véo, vêo, and vèo

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

From Austronesian. Compare Malay ribu (“thousand”), Eastern Cham ribau, rabau (“thousand”). Also borrowed from the same source are Bahnar rơbâu (“thousand”), Koho röböu (“hundred thousand”).

The meaning in Dictionarium Anamitico-Latinum (1838) is defined as "one million", but in Như Tây nhựt trình (1889), it clearly means "one hundred thousand".

This word seems to be a South Central-Southern item, while the Northern dialects chiefly used ức (億).

Numeral

vẹo • (表)

  1. (obsolete) a hundred thousand
    Synonym: ức
    một vẹo ― one hundred thousand

Etymology 2

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Adjective

vẹo • (挑, 表, 𣍅, 𩬆)

  1. twisted; crooked; deviated; tilted
Derived terms
  • vặn vẹo
  • vẹo vọ
  • xiêu vẹo
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