យួន

Khmer

Etymology

From Old Khmer យ្វន (yvan, “Vietnam; Vietnamese”); compare Pre-Angkorian Old Khmer យោន (yon), Thai ญวน (yuuan). Before 1979, it was formal.

Pronunciation

Orthographic and Phonemic	យួន yuan
WT romanisation	yuən
(standard) IPA^(key)	/juən/

Proper noun

យួន • (yuən)

(originally neutral, now assigned as derogatory) Vietnam
(originally neutral, now assigned as derogatory) Vietnamese people

See also

កន្ទប (kɑntɔɔp)
វៀតណាម (viət naam)

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