thoi

See also: Appendix:Variations of "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 ngwaeX).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

(classifier con) thoi

1. (weaving) a shuttle

   tàu con thoi ― the Space Shuttle