thoi

Vietnamese

Etymology

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 ŋˠua^X).

Pronunciation

(Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [tʰɔj˧˧]
(Huế) IPA^(key): [tʰɔj˧˧]
(Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [tʰɔj˧˧]

Noun

(classifier con) thoi

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

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