Cornish

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Etymology

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From Proto-Brythonic *pọb, from Proto-Celtic *kʷākʷos (compare Old Irish cách), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷeh₂-kʷo-; cognate with Old Church Slavonic какъ (kakŭ, what kind of) and Lithuanian kõks (what kind of).

Pronoun

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pob

  1. everyone, everybody

Welsh

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Middle Welsh pawb, from Old Welsh paup, from Proto-Brythonic *pọb, from Proto-Celtic *kʷākʷos (compare Cornish pub, Breton peb, Old Irish cách), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷeh₂-kʷo- (compare Lithuanian kóks (any, some, whatever), Old Church Slavonic какъ (kakŭ, what kind of)).

Pronunciation

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Determiner

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pob

  1. each, every

Mutation

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Welsh mutation
radical soft nasal aspirate
pob bob mhob phob
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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  • R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “pob”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
  • Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, pages 173-4

White Hmong

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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Borrowed from Mandarin (to cover, wrap; bag, package).[1][2]

Noun

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pob

  1. ball
  2. prefix used in compounds to denote lumpy things, like stones, knots, tree stumps, and earlobes

Etymology 2

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Particularly: “Borrowed from Vietnamese bộ (set), from Middle Chinese (MC buX|buwX, “set”).”

Noun

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pob

  1. only used in pob txha (bone, skeleton, fossil)

References

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  • Heimbach, Ernest E. (1979) White Hmong — English Dictionary[1], SEAP Publications, →ISBN.
  • John Duffy (2007) Writing from These Roots: Literacy in a Hmong-American Community, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, →ISBN
  1. ^ https://web.archive.org/web/20101031002604/http://wold.livingsources.org/vocabulary/25
  2. ^ Ratliff, Martha (2010) Hmong-Mien language history (Studies in Language Change; 8), Camberra, Australia: Pacific Linguistics, →ISBN, page 200.