tsev
White Hmong edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Hmong-Mien *prəuX (“house”). Cognate with Iu Mien biauv,[1] as well as perhaps Chinese 廟/庙 (miào) (Schuessler, 2007).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
tsev (classifier: lub)
Derived terms edit
- tsev neeg (“family”)
Classifier edit
tsev
- classifier for households
References edit
- Heimbach, Ernest E. (1979) White Hmong — English Dictionary[1], SEAP Publications, →ISBN, page 349.
- ^ Ratliff, Martha (2010) Hmong-Mien language history (Studies in Language Change; 8), Camberra, Australia: Pacific Linguistics, →ISBN, page 242.