cất

See also: Appendix:Variations of "cat"

Vietnamese

Etymology

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Particularly: “The Austroasiatic root for "to arise" (whence Khmer កើត (kaət), Khmu kəːt ("to be born")) is reminiscent of this Vietic form. This is probably coincidental though, Vietic has short vowel here, while the rest have long vowel, and semantically they are not that close once you look closer at the individual items.”

From Proto-Vietic *kət (“to lift, to raise”). Cognate with Toum kʌt⁷.

Pronunciation

(Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [kət̚˧˦]
(Huế) IPA^(key): [kək̚˦˧˥]
(Saigon) IPA^(key): [kək̚˦˥]

Verb

cất • (拮)

to lift, to raise
cất tiếng thở dài ― to heave a heavy sigh

Máy bay cất cánh lúc 6 giờ.
The airplane took off at 6 a.m.
to clear; to relocate, to put back
cất sách vô cặp ― to put one's books into a bag

Tôi cất mấy cái đĩa sạch. ― I put away some clean dishes.

Derived terms

Verb

cất

to distil

Derived terms