mụ

Vietnamese

Etymology

From Proto-Vietic *muːʔ. Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 姥 (SV: mỗ).

Pronunciation

(Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [mu˧˨ʔ]
(Huế) IPA^(key): [mʊw˨˩ʔ]
(Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [mʊw˨˩˨]

Noun

mụ • (媒, 姥)

(North Central Vietnam) grandmother
Mụ cào ló trửa cươi.
Grandma is raking the rice-seeds in the yard.
(derogatory in the mainstream dialects) an old woman

Pronoun

mụ • (媒, 姥)

(to an old woman, derogatory in the mainstream dialects) she/her

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