txaj

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White Hmong

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Etymology 1

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From Proto-Hmong *dzaŋᴬ (“ashamed”), borrowed from Middle Chinese 慚 (MC dzam, “ashamed, embarrassed”).[1]

Adjective

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txaj

  1. ashamed, embarrassed
Derived terms
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Etymology 2

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This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.
Particularly: “Not mentioned by Ratliff at all. Maybe borrowed from Chinese 間／间 (jiān, “room, chamber”)? chav means the same thing though and *is* thought to derive from 間; does that make "txaj" a different term or a variant. If the former, related to Etymology 3 via a metonymic shift (bed)?”

Noun

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txaj (classifier: lub)

  1. a room
    txaj pw ― a bedroom
    txaj tsev ― a room in a house

Etymology 3

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This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.
Particularly: “Considered native Hmongic by Ratliff, though no reconstructed proto-form is given.[2] Related to Middle Chinese 床 (MC dzrjang, “bed”)?”

Noun

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txaj (classifier: lub)

  1. a bed, a sleeping platform
  2. a mattress

References

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  • Heimbach, Ernest E. (1979) White Hmong — English Dictionary‎[1], SEAP Publications, →ISBN, page 373.
  1. ^ Ratliff, Martha (2010) Hmong-Mien language history (Studies in Language Change; 8), Camberra, Australia: Pacific Linguistics, →ISBN, page 166; 284.
  2. ^ https://web.archive.org/web/20101031002604/http://wold.livingsources.org/vocabulary/25
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