giấy

Etymology
From, from , from a descendant of reconstructed  when the dental stop already palatalized. Cognate with 🇨🇬 kacajˀ ("book");.

The same sound change also yields Vietnamese, from Proto-Vietic , from a descendant of ultimately Old Chinese.

For another word with similar phonological development, see, from. Also compare 🇨🇬 kʰjei²⁴ ("paper") and kjak²⁴ ("thief"), borrowed from the same sources.

Noun

 * 1) paper material for writing on