cạy

• (Thạch An – Tràng Định) IPA^(key): [kaj˧˨ʔ]
• (Trùng Khánh) IPA^(key): [gʱaj˩˧]

(Classifier: mạy) cạy

1. Alocasia macrorrhizos

• Léopold Michel Cadière (1910) Dictionnaire Tày-Annamite-Français [Tày-Vietnamese-French Dictionary]‎^[2] (in French), Hanoi: Impressions d'Extrême-Orient

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [kaj˧˨ʔ]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [kaj˨˩ʔ]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [ka(ː)j˨˩˨]

Possible doublet of nạy through an infixed form.

• cậy

cạy • (𢬹, 𢭮, 𫔷)

1. to pry, to prize, to prise

   Synonym: nạy

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Probably of Chamic origin?”)

Attested in the hydronyms Cái Cạy and Ngả Cạy.^[1]

cạy

1. (dated, nautical, South Central Vietnam, Southern Vietnam) to steer (a boat) leftward

   Antonym: bát

   Cạy thuyền nhanh kẻo húc vào mỏm đá!

   Hurry and steer the boat leftward to avoid the rock!