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Vietnamese
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Proto-Mon-Khmer *cgəj. Cognate with Khmer ឆ្កែ (chkae, “dog”), Bahnar sơke (“wild boar”) and Ngeq cakɛː ("dog").
Khasi skei (“Indian muntjac, barking deer”) might be a loanword from a Sino-Tibetan language, cf. Burmese ချေ (hkye, “barking deer”), S'gaw Karen တခံ (takhee, “deer”), Jingpho chäkhji (“barking deer”), and is not directly related to the other Austroasiatic items.
Noun
(classifier con) cầy • (猉)
- civet; viverrid
- Short for thịt cầy (“dog meat”).
- giả cầy ― imitation dog meat
See also
Etymology 2
Probably from the etymology above, compare Malay pauh kijang (literally “muntjac's mango”).
Noun
(classifier cây) cầy • (猉)
- Irvingia malayana
- Synonyms: cốc, kơ nia
Derived terms
Etymology 3
Noun
cầy • (𦓿)
- (dialectal) Alternative form of cày (“plough”)