cáy

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See also: cay, CAY, cây, cấy, čay, çay, and çaý

Tày

Pronunciation

Noun

(Classifier: tua) cáy (𫛰)

  1. chicken
    cáy bản ― domestic chicken
    cáy đông ― wild chicken
    hon cáy ― cock comb
    pác cáy ― chicken beak
    Cáy tò tỏ căn.
    Chickens fight each other.
    Cáy oóc kháy.
    The chicken hatches an egg.

Derived terms

References

  • Lục Văn Pảo, Hoàng Tuấn Nam (2003) Hoàng Triều Ân, editor, Từ điển chữ Nôm Tày [A Dictionary of (chữ) Nôm Tày]‎ (in Vietnamese), Hanoi: Nhà xuất bản Khoa học Xã hội
  • Léopold Michel Cadière (1910) Dictionnaire Tày-Annamite-Français [Tày-Vietnamese-French Dictionary]‎ (in French), Hanoi: Impressions d'Extrême-Orient

Vietnamese

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Etymology

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Particularly: “Probably of Sino-Tibetan origin; compare Proto-Sino-Tibetan *d-k(j)aːj (“crab”), whence S'gaw Karen ဆွဲၣ် (hsweh̀) and 蟹 (OC *m-kˤreʔ) (B-S) (SV: giải).”

Pronunciation

Noun

(classifier con) cáy • (𧉝, 𧑂)

  1. various crabs of the family Sesarmidae

Derived terms

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