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. 畫 (MC hweaH|hweak) (SV: hoạ, hoạch), 橫 (MC hwaeng) (SV: hoành), 滑 (MC hweat) (SV: hoạt).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [tʰwaːj˧˨ʔ]
- (Huế) IPA(key): [tʰwaːj˨˩ʔ]
- (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA(key): [tʰ⁽ʷ⁾aːj˨˩˨]
Romanization[edit]
thoại
- Sino-Vietnamese reading of 話
See also[edit]
Derived terms