thoi

thoi

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

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

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

thoi

1. (geology) alluvial plain

   thoi dài ― sandbank

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

thoi

1. to vomit, puke

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

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

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).

• loi (verb) (dialectal)

(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

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

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma 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

• “thoi”, in Soha Tra Từ (in Vietnamese), Hanoi: Vietnam Communications Corporation. Available under the Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike license.