taub

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Alemannic German[edit]

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taub

  1. (Uri) angry

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German[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Middle High German toup, toub, from Old High German toub, from Proto-West Germanic *daub, from Proto-Germanic *daubaz, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewbʰ- (to whisk, be obscured); cognate to English deaf, Swedish döv.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /taʊ̯p/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -aʊ̯p

Adjective[edit]

taub (strong nominative masculine singular tauber, comparative tauber, superlative am taubsten)

  1. deaf (not hearing)
    Synonym: gehörlos
    taub auf einem Ohrdeaf in one ear
  2. (of a body part) numb
    Synonym: (limb) eingeschlafen
  3. (of nuts lacking the seed) empty
    Synonym: leer
    taube Nussnumskull (literally, “empty nut”)

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Further reading[edit]

  • taub” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
  • taub” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
  • taub” in Duden online

White Hmong[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Hmong *tuwᴬ (gourd),[1] possibly borrowed from Central Tai *tauᴮ.[2]

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Noun[edit]

taub (classifier: lub)

  1. gourd, squash

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References[edit]

  • Heimbach, Ernest E. (1979) White Hmong — English Dictionary[1], SEAP Publications, →ISBN, page 307.
  1. ^ Ratliff, Martha (2010) Hmong-Mien language history (Studies in Language Change; 8), Camberra, Australia: Pacific Linguistics, →ISBN, page 283.
  2. ^ https://web.archive.org/web/20101031002604/http://wold.livingsources.org/vocabulary/25