muam

Galician

Verb

muam

(reintegrationist norm) third-person plural present indicative of muar

White Hmong

Etymology

This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.
Particularly: “Compare Proto-Japonic *mia (“female”), whence Japanese 女 (me, “(in compounds) woman”); maybe an MSEA areal word of sound-symbolic nursery origin (see also Vietnamese mẹ (“mother”)?”

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /muə̯˩̰/

Noun

muam

sister (as called by her brothers)

References

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