thang cáy

Tày

Etymology

From thang (“tail”) +‎ cáy (“chicken”). Literally, “chicken's tail”.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

thang cáy

1. a lock of hair protruding from behind the turban that's typically found in Tày men (clarification of this definition is needed)

References

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