npau
White Hmong
editPronunciation
editEtymology 1
editFrom Proto-Hmong-Mien *mpu̯æiH (“to boil (intransitive)”), borrowed from Old Chinese 沸 (OC *pɯds, “to boil”).[1][2]
Verb
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Derived terms
editEtymology 2
editFrom Proto-Hmong-Mien *mpeiH (“dream”);[1] compare Proto-Mon-Khmer *mp[ɔ]ʔ (“id”) (whence Mon [script needed] (kəpɔʔ, “id”)), Proto-Austronesian *Sipi (“id”) (whence Malay mimpi (“id”)).[3]
Noun
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- used in npau suav (“a dream”)
References
edit- Heimbach, Ernest E. (1979) White Hmong — English Dictionary[1], SEAP Publications, →ISBN, page 158.
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Ratliff, Martha (2010) Hmong-Mien language history (Studies in Language Change; 8), Camberra, Australia: Pacific Linguistics, →ISBN, page 277.
- ^ https://web.archive.org/web/20101031002604/http://wold.livingsources.org/vocabulary/25
- ^ Ratliff, Martha (2010) Hmong-Mien language history (Studies in Language Change; 8), Camberra, Australia: Pacific Linguistics, →ISBN, page 236.
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- White Hmong terms inherited from Proto-Hmong-Mien
- White Hmong terms derived from Proto-Hmong-Mien
- White Hmong terms borrowed from Old Chinese
- White Hmong terms derived from Old Chinese
- White Hmong lemmas
- White Hmong verbs
- White Hmong terms with usage examples
- White Hmong nouns