vay
Nghĩa (English)
- (colloquial) woe, alas!
- Vay, vay, vay! (reminiscent of English exclamation "well, well, well")
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Etymology (English)
In summary
From Ottoman Turkish وای (vay), from Persian وای (vây, “alas!”), from Proto-Indo-European *wai. Cognate with English woe, Latin vae, Lithuanian vaĩ, Russian увы́ (uvý), Old Irish fae, among others.
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