pob

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Cornish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Brythonic *pọb, from Proto-Celtic *kʷākʷos (compare Old Irish cách), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷeh₂-kʷo-; cognate with Old Church Slavonic какъ (kakŭ, what kind of) and Lithuanian kõks (what kind of).

Pronoun[edit]

pob

  1. everyone, everybody

Welsh[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Middle Welsh pawb, from Old Welsh paup, from Proto-Brythonic *pọb, from Proto-Celtic *kʷākʷos (compare Cornish pub, Breton peb, Old Irish cách), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷeh₂-kʷo- (compare Lithuanian kóks (any, some, whatever), Old Church Slavonic какъ (kakŭ, what kind of)).

Pronunciation[edit]

Determiner[edit]

pob

  1. each, every

Mutation[edit]

Welsh mutation
radical soft nasal aspirate
pob bob mhob phob
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

White Hmong[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

pob

  1. ball

References[edit]

  • John Duffy, Writing from These Roots: Literacy in a Hmong-American Community →ISBN, 2007)