thoi

See also: Appendix:Variations of "thoi"

Albanian

Noun

thoi

1. inflection of thua:
   1. definite nominative singular
   2. indefinite dative/ablative singular

Tày

Pronunciation

• (Thạch An – Tràng Định) IPA^(key): [tʰɔj˧˧]
• (Trùng Khánh) IPA^(key): [tʰɔj˦˥]

Etymology 1

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

thoi

1. (geology) alluvial plain

   thoi dài ― sandbank

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Verb

thoi

1. to vomit, puke

   kin kỉ lai thoi khửn lẹo ― to eat only to vomit it all back up

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

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).

Alternative forms

• loi (verb) (dialectal)

Noun

(classifier con, cái) thoi • (梭, 槯, 𧤹, ⿰角傕, 鏙, 崔)

1. (weaving) shuttle

   tàu con thoi ― the Space Shuttle

2. bar, ingot, stick

   thoi bạc ― silver bar

Derived terms

• con thoi
• hình thoi
• loi thoi
• tàu con thoi
• thuyền thoi

Verb

thoi • (推)

1. (colloquial) to punch, slug; to jab with an elbow

   thoi một quả đấm vào mặt ― to land a punch in the face

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Combining form

thoi

1. reduplicant of thóp, only used in thoi thóp
2. reduplicant of thót, only used in thoi thót
3. construed with cá thoi loi

References

• “thoi”, in Soha Tra Từ (in Vietnamese), Hanoi: Vietnam Communications Corporation.