ve chai

Vietnamese

Etymology

ve (“bottle”) +‎ chai (“bottle”).

Attested yet glossed mistakenly in Latin as lagena vitrea ("glass bottle") in Pierre Pigneau de Béhaine's Dictionarium anamitico-latinum.[1]

Pronunciation

  • (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [vɛ˧˧ t͡ɕaːj˧˧]
  • (Huế) IPA(key): [vɛ˧˧ t͡ɕaːj˧˧]
  • (Saigon) IPA(key): [vɛ˧˧ caːj˧˧] ~ [jɛ˧˧ caːj˧˧]

Noun

ve chai

  1. (Southern Vietnam, colloquial) bottles; waste (in general); scrap; junk

References

  1. ^ * Pierre Pigneau de Béhaine (1772) Dictionarium anamitico-latinum‎[1]
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