vân vân và mây mây

Vietnamese

Alternative forms

Etymology

An extension of vân vân (云云, “et cetera”), interpreting vân (云, “to say”) as vân (雲, “cloud”) and matching it with the native equivalent mây (“cloud”).

Pronunciation

  • (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [vən˧˧ vən˧˧ vaː˨˩ məj˧˧ məj˧˧]
  • (Huế) IPA(key): [vəŋ˧˧ vəŋ˧˧ vaː˦˩ məj˧˧ məj˧˧]
  • (Saigon) IPA(key): [vəŋ˧˧ vəŋ˧˧ vaː˨˩ məj˧˧ məj˧˧] ~ [jəŋ˧˧ jəŋ˧˧ jaː˨˩ məj˧˧ məj˧˧]

Phrase

vân vân và mây mây

  1. and so on and so forth; et cetera
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