nhăm

== Vietnamese == === Pronunciation === (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [ɲam˧˧] (Huế) IPA(key): [ɲam˧˧] (Saigon) IPA(key): [ɲam˧˧] === Etymology 1 === Northern form with the commonly seen nasalization of lateral. Compare lớn vs. nhớn, lời vs. nhời, lài vs. nhài, lạt vs. nhạt. This sound shift originally started as nasal assimilation within the proximity of the phoneme /m/: *m(V)l > /mɲ/ > /ɲ/ (as seen even in the loanword nhài); as lăm almost occurs only after mươi, the expected shift occurred. ==== Numeral ==== nhăm Northern Vietnam form of lăm === Etymology 2 === ==== Verb ==== nhăm (transitive, rare, usually in compounds) alternative form of lăm (“to intend to do something”) ===== Derived terms =====