rẩy

See also: rẫy

Vietnamese

Alternative forms

• rảy

Etymology

Shorto (2006: 522) relates this to Vietnamese rải and propose for both a native Austroasiatic origin.

Meanwhile, Baxter and Sagart (2014: 57, 187) propose that this is

non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 灑 (SV: sái), specifically borrowed from Old Chinese 灑 (OC *Cə.s<r>ərʔ-s), for which they reconstruct *Cə.s- to account for Vietnamese high-register tone and ‹r-›.

Pronunciation

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

Verb

rẩy

1. to sprinkle (water)

Derived terms

• run rẩy