kwv

White Hmong

Etymology

From Proto-Hmong-Mien *ku̯eiX (“younger brother”).^[1] Possibly related to Chinese 哥 (gē, “older brother”), though the details are unclear, particularly why the age relationships between the Hmong-Mien terms (kwv and tij) are opposite to those of Sinitic (弟 (dì) and 哥 (gē)).^[2]

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /kɨ˧˦/

Noun

kwv

younger brother, little brother

References

Heimbach, Ernest E. (1979) White Hmong — English Dictionary‎^[1], SEAP Publications, →ISBN.

^ Ratliff, Martha (2010) Hmong-Mien language history (Studies in Language Change; 8), Camberra, Australia: Pacific Linguistics, →ISBN, page 276.
^ https://web.archive.org/web/20101031002604/http://wold.livingsources.org/vocabulary/25

[1] Ratliff, Martha (2010) Hmong-Mien language history (Studies in Language Change; 8), Camberra, Australia: Pacific Linguistics, →ISBN, page 276.

[2] ttps://web.archive.org/web/20101031002604/http://wold.livingsources.org/vocabulary/25

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