yêu
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There are cognates in Tho lects, e.g. Cuối Tân Hợp Ɂiew³⁵ (Nguyễn Hữu Hoành et al., 2022), with the meaning of "beautiful, pretty".
Considering its cognates' meaning, the Vietnamese verb is probably a semantic extension of adjectival Chinese 妖 (yêu, “charming”) as seen in yêu kiều (“charming, graceful”), in turn from 妖嬌.
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