trẻ
Vietnamese
Etymology
From Middle Vietnamese tlẻ.
Attested in Phật thuyết đại báo phụ mẫu ân trọng kinh (佛說大報父母恩重經) as ⿺礼亇, composed of 亇 + 礼 (MC lejX) (modern SV: cá lễ), 礼 (MC lejX) (modern SV: lễ) and 里 (MC liX) (modern SV: lí).
Sometimes connected to Chinese 稚 (MC drijH) (SV: trĩ) but this can now be rejected based on the *kl- cluster in Old Vietnamese.
Pronunciation
- (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [t͡ɕɛ˧˩]
- (Huế) IPA(key): [ʈɛ˧˨]
- (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA(key): [ʈɛ˨˩˦]
Audio (Hồ Chí Minh City) (file)
Synonyms
- (young): ít tuổi, trẻ tuổi, nhỏ tuổi
- (young): non (of non-human living beings)
Derived terms
Noun
(classifier đứa) trẻ • (礼, , , 𥘷, 里, 稚, 穉, 雉, 𪨅, 𱚫)
- (slightly formal) a child
- Anh đã mơ về ngôi nhà và những đứa trẻ.
- I've dreamed of our house and our children.
Noun
References
- "trẻ" in Hồ Ngọc Đức, Free Vietnamese Dictionary Project (details)
- Lê Sơn Thanh, "Nom-Viet.dat", WinVNKey (details)
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