mẹ con

Vietnamese

Etymology

mẹ +‎ con

Pronunciation

(Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [mɛ˧˨ʔ kɔn˧˧]
(Huế) IPA^(key): [mɛ˨˩ʔ kɔŋ˧˧]
(Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [mɛ˨˩˨ kɔŋ˧˧]

Noun

(collective) mother and child
tình cảm mẹ con
mother-child affection
(literally) Short for mẹ của con.
- (Can we date this quote?), Phúc âm Gioan [Book of John]:
  "Này la Mẹ con." (Ga. 19, 26–27)
  "Behold, your mother." (John 19:26–27)

See also

References

Đỗ Hữu Châu (1981) Từ Vựng-Ngữ Nghĩa Tiếng Việt [Vietnamese Lexico-Semantics] (in Vietnamese), Hanoi: Vietnam Education Publishing House
Pham, Giang, Kohnert, Kathryn, Carney, Edward (2008) “Corpora of Vietnamese Texts: Lexical effects of intended audience and publication place”, in Behavior Research Methods, volume 40, →DOI, pages 154–163

Anagrams

con mẹ

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