zaub
White Hmong
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-Hmong-Mien *-ʔræi (“vegetable”); cognate with Iu Mien lai and perhaps Middle Chinese 卉 (MC xjw+jX|xjw+jH, “herbs, vegetation”).[1] Likely unrelated to Vietnamese rau (“leafy greens, leaf vegetable”), despite superficial similarities.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editzaub
References
edit- ^ Ratliff, Martha (2010) Hmong-Mien language history (Studies in Language Change; 8), Camberra, Australia: Pacific Linguistics, →ISBN, page 286.