pliaj
Esperanto edit
Adjective edit
pliaj
- plural of plia
Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
pliaj n (uncountable)
Declension edit
White Hmong edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Hmong-Mien *bl-ᴬ (“forehead”); compare Proto-Tai *praːkᴰ (“id”), whence Thai ผาก (pàak, “id”).[1]
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
pliaj
Derived terms edit
- hau pliaj (“the forehead”)
- hauv pliaj (“the forehead”)
- plim pliaj (“to tilt the forehead back, to throw the head back with the forehead turned upward”)
References edit
- Heimbach, Ernest E. (1979) White Hmong — English Dictionary[1], SEAP Publications, →ISBN, page 251.
- ^ Ratliff, Martha (2010) Hmong-Mien language history (Studies in Language Change; 8), Camberra, Australia: Pacific Linguistics, →ISBN, page 47; 281.