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Käthing.
Compare Mandarin 薑 / 姜 (jiāng), Thai ขิง (kǐng), Khmer ខ្ញី (khñəy).
käthing
- ginger
- K. E. Herr (2011) The phonological interpretation of minor syllables, applied to Lemi Chin[1], Payap University, page 58