White Hmong edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Hmong *pljowᴮ (heart).[1]

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

plawv (classifier: lub)

  1. heart
  2. the center, the middle of

References edit

  • Heimbach, Ernest E. (1979) White Hmong — English Dictionary[1], SEAP Publications, →ISBN, page 249.
  1. ^ Ratliff, Martha (2010) Hmong-Mien language history (Studies in Language Change; 8), Camberra, Australia: Pacific Linguistics, →ISBN, page 281.