trấy

Vietnamese

Etymology

See the main entry trái. This is not a reflex of Northern Middle Vietnamese blái attested in Dictionarium Annamiticum Lusitanum et Latinum (1651). The diphthongization of *eː > /əj/ is a characteristic of the North Central dialects and is not related to the *eː > /aːj/ in the mainstream dialects.

Pronunciation

• (Vinh) IPA^(key): [ʈəj˩]

Noun

trấy

1. North Central Vietnam form of trái (“fruit”)