เถ้าแก่เนี้ย

Thai

Etymology

Borrowed from Teochew 頭家娘／头家娘 (tao5 gê1 niê/niô).[1]

Pronunciation
Orthographicเถ้าแก่เนี้ย
e tʰ ˆ ā æ k ˋ e n ī ˆ y
Phonemic
เท่า-แก่-เนี้ย
e d ˋ ā – æ k ˋ – e n ī ˆ y
RomanizationPaiboontâo-gɛ̀ɛ-níia
Royal Institutethao-kae-nia
(standard) IPA(key)/tʰaw˥˩.kɛː˨˩.nia̯˦˥/(R)

Noun

เถ้าแก่เนี้ย • (tâo-gɛ̀ɛ-níia) (classifier คน)

  1. (used amongst Chinese people) landlady, proprietress; female owner of a business; bosslady, mistress; wealthy woman; also used as a title for or term of address to such person, and used by such person as a self-reference.

References
  1. Joanna Rose McFarland (2021) “Chapter 3: Language Contact and Lexical Changes in Khmer and Teochew in Cambodia and Beyond”, in Chia, Caroline, Hoogervorst, Tom, editors, Sinophone Southeast Asia: Sinitic Voices across the Southern Seas (Chinese Overseas: History, Literature, and Society; 20 [Open Access])‎, Brill, →ISBN, page 104
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