cưỡi
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Vietnamese
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- (dialectal) cỡi
Etymology
[edit]Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 騎 (SV: kị).
Also compare Burmese စီး (ci:), Khmer ជិះ (cih), ꊪ (zy, “to cause to ride”), Thai ขี่ (kìi), Lao ຂີ່ (khī), Zhuang gwih, White Hmong caij, Proto-Austronesian *sakay (“catch a ride, join a group, ride on something”).