cá mối

Vietnamese

Etymology

cá (“fish”) +‎ mối (“common house gecko”); parallel semantic composition as in English lizardfish. The second element is the same one as in rắn mối (“skink”).

Pronunciation

  • (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [kaː˧˦ moj˧˦]
  • (Huế) IPA(key): [kaː˨˩˦ moj˨˩˦]
  • (Saigon) IPA(key): [kaː˦˥ moj˦˥]

Noun

(classifier con) cá mối

  1. Saurida umeyoshii
  2. (by extension) lizardfish
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