White Hmong edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Hmong-Mien *prəuX (house). Cognate with Iu Mien biauv,[1] as well as perhaps Chinese (miào) (Schuessler, 2007).

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

tsev (classifier: lub)

  1. house; dwelling; building

Derived terms edit

Classifier edit

tsev

  1. classifier for households

References edit

  • Heimbach, Ernest E. (1979) White Hmong — English Dictionary[1], SEAP Publications, →ISBN, page 349.
  1. ^ Ratliff, Martha (2010) Hmong-Mien language history (Studies in Language Change; 8), Camberra, Australia: Pacific Linguistics, →ISBN, page 242.