thoi

See also: Appendix:Variations of "thoi"

Vietnamese edit

Etymology edit

Possibly non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 梭 (“shuttle”, SV: thoa); as the correspondence between early ‹-oi› vs. late ‹-oa› is also seen in ngói vs. ngoã, the former from Old Chinese 瓦 (OC *C.ŋʷˤra[j]ʔ), the latter from Middle Chinese 瓦 (MC ngwaeX).

Pronunciation edit

(Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [tʰɔj˧˧]
(Huế) IPA^(key): [tʰɔj˧˧]
(Saigon) IPA^(key): [tʰɔj˧˧]

Noun edit

(classifier con) thoi

(weaving) a shuttle
tàu con thoi ― the Space Shuttle