nyuj
Appearance
See also: nyűj
White Hmong
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Hmong-Mien *ŋiuŋ (“water buffalo, cow”), borrowed from Old Chinese 牛 (OC *ŋʷɯ, “cow”), albeit with an unexpected nasalization of the ending consonant in the Hmong-Mien form.[1] The White Hmong form's loss of the nasal may be due to phonetic influence from modern Mandarin 牛 (niú). Cognate with Iu Mien ngongh.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]nyuj (classifier: tus)
References
[edit]- ^ Ratliff, Martha (2010) Hmong-Mien language history (Studies in Language Change; 8), Camberra, Australia: Pacific Linguistics, →ISBN, page 88; 165; 280.
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- White Hmong terms inherited from Proto-Hmong-Mien
- White Hmong terms derived from Proto-Hmong-Mien
- White Hmong terms borrowed from Old Chinese
- White Hmong terms derived from Old Chinese
- White Hmong terms with IPA pronunciation
- White Hmong lemmas
- White Hmong nouns
- White Hmong terms with usage examples
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