vượn

Etymology
Cognate with 🇨🇬 Bi. Compare 🇨🇬 (whence 🇨🇬 kwaɲ, etc.) which lacks the expected glottal stop if it was actually cognates of the Viet-Muong forms.

Unlikely to be derived from ~  (> SV: ) as proposed by Sinocentric philologists like An Chi.

Noun

 * 1) a gibbon
 * 2)  an ape