thoại

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Vietnamese[edit]

Etymology[edit]

It 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. (MC hweaH|hweak) (SV: hoạ, hoạch), (MC hwaeng) (SV: hoành), (MC hweat) (SV: hoạt).

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Romanization[edit]

thoại

  1. Sino-Vietnamese reading of

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