gửi

See also: Appendix:Variations of "gui"

Vietnamese

Alternative forms

• (North Central Vietnam, obsolete or endangered in Northern Vietnam) gưởi (with diphthongization)
• (South Central Vietnam, Southern Vietnam) gởi (no vowel raising)

Etymology

From Proto-Vietic *p-kəːs (“to entrust, send”), from Old Chinese 寄 (OC *C.[k](r)aj-s) (B-S) (SV: ký). Cognate with Muong cới. Compare North Central Vietnamese gưởi and Southern Vietnamese gởi.

Attested as Northern Middle Vietnamese gưởi in Dictionarium Annamiticum Lusitanum et Latinum (1651). This particular form seems to have survived, albeit endangered, until the modern days in some localities of the Red River Delta like Hà Tây, Hanoi, and Hải Dương.

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [ɣɨj˧˩]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [ɣɨj˧˨]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [ɣɨj˨˩˦]

Verb

gửi • (改, 𠳚, 𢭮, 𫏍, 㨳, 󱤍)

1. to send

   Antonym: nhận

   người gửi ― a sender

   gửi con ra tỉnh học ― to send one's child to the city to study

   gửi lại ― to send back, give back or return

2. (banking) to deposit

   Antonym: rút

Derived terms

• gửi gắm
• thân gửi