tsaug
White Hmong edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Proto-Hmong-Mien *N-dzjeiH (“porcupine”).[1]
Noun edit
tsaug (classifier: tus)
- a porcupine, especially a large long-quilled one
- txoj kab tsaug ― porcupine trail
Etymology 2 edit
Adjective edit
tsaug
- used in ua tsaug (“to thank; thanks”)
- weak, feeble, sickly, tired
- tsaug tsaug leeg li ― very weak, feeble
Derived terms edit
- tsaug zog (“sleepy”)
Etymology 3 edit
Verb edit
tsaug
References edit
- Heimbach, Ernest E. (1979) White Hmong — English Dictionary[1], SEAP Publications, →ISBN, pages 346-7.
- ^ Ratliff, Martha (2010) Hmong-Mien language history (Studies in Language Change; 8), Camberra, Australia: Pacific Linguistics, →ISBN, page 284.
- ^ https://web.archive.org/web/20101031002604/http://wold.livingsources.org/vocabulary/25