thoại
Vietnamese
editEtymology
editIt is unclear why Vietnamese has the aspirated stop ‹th› as reflex of the Middle Chinese initial in this particular morpheme. Other Sinitic morphemes with the same initial yielded Sino-Vietnamese ‹h›, cf. 畫 (MC hweaH|hweak) (SV: hoạ, hoạch), 橫 (MC hwaeng) (SV: hoành), 滑 (MC hweat) (SV: hoạt).
Pronunciation
editRomanization
editthoại
- Sino-Vietnamese reading of 話
See also
editDerived terms