tấy

Vietnamese

Etymology

See rái.

In spite of a phonological discrepancy, rái and tấy are both regular reflexes of the Proto-Vietic word, wih most Vietnamese dialects spirantized medial *-s- to ‹r› while the North Central dialects kept the *-s- (that later regularly shifted to ‹t›) unaffected by the presyllable *p-. For the ‹ay›-‹ây› (< *eː) correspondence, compare North Central gấy vs. standard written gái.

Pronunciation
  • (Vinh) IPA(key): [təj˩]

Noun

(classifier con) tấy

  1. Pronunciation spelling of rái, representing Nghệ An and Hà Tĩnh Vietnamese.
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