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Vietnamese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Compare Khmer ក្រៀល (kriəl, “sarus crane”), Mon ကြေဲ (krea, “sarus crane”).
Probably originally imitative, compare Latin grūs, Yakut туруйа (turuya), Japanese 鶴 (tsuru).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [sew˧˦]
- (Huế) IPA(key): [ʂew˨˩˦] ~ [sew˨˩˦] invalid IPA characters (][)
- (Saigon) IPA(key): [ʂew˦˥] ~ [sew˦˥] invalid IPA characters (][)
Noun
[edit]- crane (bird)