Reconstruction:Proto-Hmong-Mien/hup
Proto-Hmong-Mien
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Middle Chinese 欱 (MC xop|xeap, “to drink”),the latter likely related to 喝 (MC 'aejH|xat).[1]
Verb
edit*hup
- to drink
Descendants
edit- White Hmong: haus
References
edit- ^ Ratliff, Martha (2010) Hmong-Mien language history (Studies in Language Change; 8), Camberra, Australia: Pacific Linguistics, →ISBN, page 107; 274.