MTL words with double reverse mapping

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Some MTL words can be converted to more than one valid POJ word. This happens because of loss of tone information when MTL syllables are put together to form a word (tone sandhi). In general, the word is two syllables, where the first syllable's citation tone is either tone 1 (high) or tone 5 (curving-up). After conversion to MTL, they become homonyms (same spelling, same pronunciation).

36 MTL words with this property were found in the Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan (TSS), affecting 75 rows:

Extended list

96 MTL words with this property were found in the Maryknoll Taiwanese-English Dictionary. The following list of 125 MTL includes data from both dictionaries: