bệt
See also: Appendix:Variations of "bet"
Vietnamese
editEtymology
editFrom Middle Vietnamese blẹt (the ‹e› is simply due to de Rhodes's orthography, the vowel was [e], not [ɛ]). Cognate with Vietnamese trệt.
This is one of the cases where medial -l- was lost. Compare Middle Vietnamese mlác (> mác), blỉu (> bỉu).