sếu

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See also: seu, SEU, seü, and se'u

Vietnamese

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Etymology

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Particularly: “Also compare the place name Khuê Liễu, whose demotic name (tên Nôm) was làng Sếu. I can't seem to find the spelling in Chinese characters for the name though. The earlier form can be reconstructed as *k-reːwʔ.

Compare Khmer ក្រៀល (kriəl, sarus crane), Mon ကြေဲ (krea, sarus crane).

Probably originally imitative, compare Latin grūs, Yakut туруйа (turuya), Japanese (tsuru).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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(classifier con) sếu (, 𫛎)

  1. crane (bird)