cưỡi
Vietnamese
editAlternative forms
edit- (dialectal) cỡi
Etymology
editNon-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”).