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From Proto-Vietic*k-cajʔ, from a descendant of reconstructed Old Chinese紙 (OC *k.teʔ) when the dental stop already palatalized. Attested as gếy in the Dictionarium Annamiticum Lusitanum et Latinum (1651). Cognate with Aremkacajˀ ("book"); non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese紙(“paper”, SV: chỉ).
The same sound change also yields Vietnamese giống, from Proto-Vietic *k-coːŋʔ, from a descendant of ultimately Old Chinese 種 (OC *k.toŋʔ).
For another word with similar phonological development, see giặc, from 賊 / 贼. Also compare Lakkiakʰjei²⁴ ("paper") and kjak²⁴ ("thief"), borrowed from the same sources.