See also: Taub

Alemannic German edit

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taub

  1. (Uri) angry

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German edit

Etymology edit

From Middle High German toup, toub, from Old High German toub, from Proto-West Germanic *daub, from Proto-Germanic *daubaz, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewbʰ- (to whisk, be obscured); cognate to English deaf, Swedish döv.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /taʊ̯p/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -aʊ̯p

Adjective edit

taub (strong nominative masculine singular tauber, comparative tauber, superlative am taubsten)

  1. deaf (not hearing)
    taub auf einem Ohrdeaf in one ear
  2. numb
  3. (of nuts lacking the seed) empty
    taube Nussnumskull (literally, “empty nut”)

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Further reading edit

  • taub” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
  • taub” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
  • taub” in Duden online

White Hmong edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Hmong *tuwᴬ (gourd),[1] possibly borrowed from Central Tai *tauᴮ.[2]

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Noun edit

taub (classifier: lub)

  1. gourd, squash

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References edit

  • Heimbach, Ernest E. (1979) White Hmong — English Dictionary[1], SEAP Publications, →ISBN, page 307.
  1. ^ Ratliff, Martha (2010) Hmong-Mien language history (Studies in Language Change; 8), Camberra, Australia: Pacific Linguistics, →ISBN, page 283.
  2. ^ https://web.archive.org/web/20101031002604/http://wold.livingsources.org/vocabulary/25