giữa

Alternative forms

 * (dialects without the ngã-nặng merger)
 * (dialects with the ngã-nặng merger)

Etymology
Cognate with 🇨🇬 [Cuối Chăm] kʰrɐː⁶.

The mainstream Vietnamese form underwent the uncommon but attested ‹gi-› shift instead of regular  ‹s-›. The North Central forms exhibit the local frequent shift. For the correspondence, compare mainstream vs. North Central, mainstream  vs. North Central.

Northern Old Vietnamese in the earliest Nôm texts in already showed cluster simplification (with its usage of  as phonetic), while the contemporary Old Vietnamese form ancestral to the modern North Central forms certainly still had the consonant cluster at the time.

Preposition

 * 1) in the middle; in the center; amidst; between; among