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NOI NUAN NUE NUI NᴺNG NUT O Ó
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-1
Weak; timorous; fearful; apprehensive.
-1
To drive away demons by certain rites; abundant; delicate.
-1
A hoe for rooting up weeds; to clear away weeds.
2
Easy; leisurely; elegant; beautiful.
2
To rub with the hand; to change from one use to another.
2
To rub between both hands.
-3
Two.
3-
Anger; displeasure; to be angry with.

Noi.

-1
A water lily.

Nuan.

2
Warm; temperate; mild; soft; bland.
2
Warmth of fire; warm.

Nue.

2
Hunger; famine; putrid fish or flesh.

Nui.

-3
A plough-handle; a plough.

Nⁿng.

-1
Name of an office; a respectful appellation of masters, husbands &c.
2
A woman; female; daughter.
2
Soft; flexible; yielding; the wheel of a carriage.
-3
An egg.

Nut.

-4-4
To stammer; slow of speech.

O.

-1
A lake; name of a river.
-1
A species of bamboo.
1
A crow; black; an interrogative particle; how?
1
A mother; the fructifying influences of nature.
1
To recite; sing verses or songs; to nourish.
1
A certain kind of waterfowl.
3
An edible plant, with a solid root & large leaf; luxuriant.

Ó.

-1
The rough coarse oysters; a cluster of oysters.
-1
The water-lily; generic name of plants; burden.
1
To speak angrily; reprehend; to interrogate; reinterated.
1
O! ah! a familiar prefix to a person's name; who? what; distorted.