gấy

See also: gay, Gay, gáy, gảy, and gậy

Vietnamese

Alternative forms

  • cấy (in North Central dialects less affected by lenition)

Etymology

North Central form with different path of diphthongization of mainstream gái.

As with nhôông (“husband”), originally just meant "man, male", gấy/cấy originally (and still) meant just "woman, female".

Pronunciation

  • (Vinh) IPA(key): [ɣəj˩]

Noun

(classifier con) gấy

  1. North Central Vietnam form of gái (“girls; female”)

Noun

gấy

  1. wife

See also

  • gấy nhôông
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