ntxuav
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White Hmong
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Hmong-Mien *ntsæwX (“to wash (hands)”), borrowed from Old Chinese 澡 (OC *ʔslaːwʔ, “to wash (one's hands)”).[1][2]
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]ntxuav
- to wash
- ntxuav tes ― to wash the hands
- ntxuav cev ― to wash the body (take a bath)
- to wash out a vessel
- to wash something off in water or other liquid
Derived terms
[edit]- ntxuav duab (“to develop a photo”)
References
[edit]- Heimbach, Ernest E. (1979) White Hmong — English Dictionary[1], SEAP Publications, →ISBN, page 214.
- ^ Ratliff, Martha (2010) Hmong-Mien language history (Studies in Language Change; 8), Camberra, Australia: Pacific Linguistics, →ISBN, page 123; 280.
- ^ https://web.archive.org/web/20101031002604/http://wold.livingsources.org/vocabulary/25