nhăm
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See also: Appendix:Variations of "nham"
Vietnamese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Northern form with the commonly seen nasalization of lateral, compare lớn vs. nhớn, lời vs. nhời, lài vs. nhài, lạt vs. nhạt.
This sound shift originally started as nasal assimilation within the proximity of the phoneme /m/: *m(V)l > /mɲ/ > /ɲ/ (as seen even in the loanword nhài); as lăm almost occurs only after mươi, the expected shift occurred.
Pronunciation
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[edit]nhăm
- Northern Vietnam form of lăm