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Vietnamese
Etymology
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.ŋʷˤraʔ), the latter from Middle Chinese 瓦 (MC ngwaeX).
Pronunciation
Noun
(classifier con) thoi
- (weaving) a shuttle
- tàu con thoi ― the Space Shuttle