Reconstruction:Proto-Hmong-Mien/hup
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Proto-Hmong-Mien
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Middle Chinese 欱 (MC xop|xeap, “to drink”)，the latter likely related to 喝 (MC 'aejH|xat).[1]
Verb
[edit]*hup
- to drink
Descendants
[edit]- White Hmong: haus
References
[edit]- ^ Ratliff, Martha (2010) Hmong-Mien language history (Studies in Language Change; 8), Camberra, Australia: Pacific Linguistics, →ISBN, page 107; 274.