cảy

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

cảy

1. alternative form of cẩy

• Léopold Michel Cadière (1910) Dictionnaire Tày-Annamite-Français [Tày-Vietnamese-French Dictionary]‎^[1] (in French), Hanoi: Impressions d'Extrême-Orient

From Proto-Vietic *kas, from Proto-Mon-Khmer *ʔas ~ *ʔəs. Cognate with Pacoh ayh, éih, Khasi at, Khmu [Cuang] ʔɛh.

See cứt (“shit”) and củi (“firewood”) for two other known cases where Vietic velar initial corresponds to zero-initial in other Austroasiatic branches.

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

cảy

1. (North Central Vietnam) be swollen

   Synonym: sưng