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Vietnamese
Etymology
From Proto-Vietic *guːs ~ *kuːs (“fire; firewood”), from Proto-Mon-Khmer *( )ʔus ~ *( )ʔuus ~ *( )ʔuəs (“firewood”). Cognate with Muong cúi (“fire, firewood”), Pacoh uih, Khmer អុស (ʼoh).
This is one of three known cases of velar initial in Vietnamese corresponding to zero-initial in other Austroasiatic branches. The other two cases are cứt (“shit”) and the dialectal cảy (“swollen”).
Pronunciation
Noun
(classifier cây, khúc, thanh, que) củi • (檜, 桧)
- firewood
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