tias

See also: TIAS and tías

English

Noun

tias

plural of tia

Portuguese

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃi.ɐs/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃi.ɐʃ/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃi.as/

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈti.ɐʃ/

Hyphenation: ti‧as

Noun

tias

plural of tia

Swedish

Noun

tias

indefinite genitive singular of tia

White Hmong

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /tiə̯˩/

Etymology 1

This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.
Particularly: “Not mentioned by Ratliff at all. Doesn't seem to resemble anything in the MSEA area, and the way it serves as a conjunction similar to English that (and even sounds similar to "that") doesn't seem to be done by most other languages in the area. The closest analogue might be Japanese と (to, “complement marker”), which also starts with an alveolar stop, funnily enough.”

Particle

tias

restricted post-verbal intensifier used after verbs involving speech, sound, or thought, similar to the English usage of that, though with said above restrictions
Kuv xav tias zaub mov qab zoo. ― I think (that) food tastes good.

Etymology 2

This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.
Particularly: “Not mentioned by Ratliff at all. Doesn't seem to have any similar comparanda in the MSEA area. There's a similarity to the first character in Chinese 胎記／胎记 (tāijì, “birthmark”, literally “fetus mark”), but a supposed clipping of a disyllabic character (especially when the first character does not carry the full meaning of the compound) seems uncharacteristic of Sinitic borrowings into Hmongic.”

Noun

tias (classifier: lub)

a birthmark on the face

References

Heimbach, Ernest E. (1979) White Hmong — English Dictionary‎^[1], SEAP Publications, →ISBN, page 320.