hnab
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White Hmong
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Hmong-Mien *hnɔn (“grain head, bag”); possibly related to Old Chinese 囊 (OC *naːŋ, “sack, bag”), which, if related, borrowed only the derived "bag" sense from Hmong-Mien rather than the "head of grain" sense.[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]hnab (classifier: lub)
References
[edit]- ^ Ratliff, Martha (2010) Hmong-Mien language history (Studies in Language Change; 8), Camberra, Australia: Pacific Linguistics, →ISBN, page 57; 242; 275.