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White Hmong
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Hmong-Mien *ku̯eiX (“younger brother”).[1] Possibly related to Chinese 哥 (gē, “older brother”), though the details are unclear, particularly why the age relationships between the Hmong-Mien terms (kwv and tij) are opposite to those of Sinitic (弟 (dì) and 哥 (gē)).[2]
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]kwv
References
[edit]- ^ Ratliff, Martha (2010) Hmong-Mien language history (Studies in Language Change; 8), Camberra, Australia: Pacific Linguistics, →ISBN, page 276.
- ^ https://web.archive.org/web/20101031002604/http://wold.livingsources.org/vocabulary/25