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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.