khau
Hokkien edit
For pronunciation and definitions of khau – see 剾 (“to pare (using knife); to blow; to satirize”). (This term is the pe̍h-ōe-jī form of 剾). |
Vietnamese edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [xaw˧˧]
- (Huế) IPA(key): [kʰaw˧˧] ~ [xaw˧˧]
- (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA(key): [kʰa(ː)w˧˧] ~ [xa(ː)w˧˧]
Noun edit
khau
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White Hmong edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Hmong *khjɔᶜ (“shoes”), possibly borrowed from Middle Chinese 屨 (MC kjuH, “straw sandals”), though the Sinitic form is not aspirated.[1]
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
khau (classifier: nkawm (for pairs))
References edit
- ^ Ratliff, Martha (2010) Hmong-Mien language history (Studies in Language Change; 8), Camberra, Australia: Pacific Linguistics, →ISBN, page 89; 276.