Atong (India) edit

Etymology edit

Ultimately from Sanskrit नियम (niyama).

Noun edit

niam

  1. custom, law, tradition

References edit

White Hmong edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Hmong *minᴰ (female).[1] Despite phonetic similarity of the descendant forms of both Proto-Hmongic and Proto-Sinitic, likely not related to Chinese (, “woman”).

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

niam

  1. mother, woman
  2. an older female relative
  3. (Christianity) nun
  4. (Religion) a female member of religious community

Derived terms edit

References edit

  • Heimbach, Ernest E. (1979) White Hmong — English Dictionary[1], SEAP Publications, →ISBN.
  1. ^ Ratliff, Martha (2010) Hmong-Mien language history (Studies in Language Change; 8), Camberra, Australia: Pacific Linguistics, →ISBN, page 41; 277.