thoại

== Vietnamese == === Alternative forms === (obsolete) hoại === Etymology === 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 === (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [tʰwaːj˧˨ʔ] (Huế) IPA(key): [tʰwaːj˨˩ʔ] (Saigon) IPA(key): [tʰ⁽ʷ⁾aːj˨˩˨] === Romanization === thoại Sino-Vietnamese reading of 話 ==== See also ====