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Vietnamese lệnh and Thai เลย

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If I understand correctly both Vietnamese lệnh ("ley") and Thai เลย ("l'ey") are vague in both languages in the sense that they can have various meanings which depend on context but generally used as emphasizing terms or as a generosity gesture.

Are Vietnamese lệnh and Thai เลย related?

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msh210‭ wrote about 3 years ago

I don't know any Vietnamese. But neither http://www.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/~duc/Dict/ nor https://vi.wiktionary.org/wiki/l%E1%BB%87nh seems to ascribe the meaning(s) to lệnh that you do.

deleted user wrote about 3 years ago · edited about 3 years ago

Yes, I might have had a mistake ; I recall Google Translate showed a few more alternatives from it rather than "Comeinand" (such as "word" ; I didn't internalize the others) but I no longer find it there so either I confused or there was an update about this word in a similar time in Google Translate's database. Indeed, other dictionaries I have checked didn't give any alternative besides variants of "command".