vân vân và mây mây

Vietnamese

Alternative forms

• vân vân mây mây

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˧˧]
• (Hồ Chí Minh City) 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