เนย

Thai

Etymology

Semi-learned borrowing from Tamil நெய் (ney, ghee).

Pronunciation

Orthographic/Phonemicเนย
e n y
RomanizationPaiboonnəəi
Royal Institutenoei
(standard) IPA(key)/nɤːj˧/(R)

Noun

เนย • (nəəi) (classifier ก้อน)

  1. butter

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Lao: ເນີຍ (nœ̄i)

Further reading

  • เนย” in Thai Dictionary Project (TDP) (UC Berkeley 1964) (plus additional data from the Royal Institute of Thailand (RI) and NECTEC's LEXITRON project (LEX)). Searchable online at SEAlang.net.