đồng thoại
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Vietnamese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Sino-Vietnamese word from 童話 (“fairy tale”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [ʔɗəwŋ͡m˨˩ tʰwaːj˧˨ʔ]
- (Huế) IPA(key): [ʔɗəwŋ͡m˦˩ tʰwaːj˨˩ʔ]
- (Saigon) IPA(key): [ʔɗəwŋ͡m˨˩ tʰ⁽ʷ⁾aːj˨˩˨]
Noun
[edit]Usage notes
[edit]- This term is most often applied to Western fairy tales, but even those are still often called cổ tích. Fairy tales from countries in the Sinosphere are rarely called đồng thoại.