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qub

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See also: QUB

Translingual

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Etymology

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Clipping of English Quechua or Spanish quechua with b as a placeholder.

Symbol

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qub

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Huallaga Quechua.

White Hmong

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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From Proto-Hmong-Mien *qu̯oH (“old”), borrowed from Middle Chinese 故 (MC kuH, “old, former”).[1] Cognate with Iu Mien gox.[2]

Adjective

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qub

  1. (of inanimate objects) old
    Coordinate term: laus
    lub qub zos ― the old village

Etymology 2

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From Proto-Hmongic *qɛŋᴬ (“star”).[3]

Noun

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qub

  1. used in hnub qub (“star”)

References

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  • Heimbach, Ernest E. (1979), White Hmong — English Dictionary‎[1], SEAP Publications, →ISBN, page 265.
  1. ^ https://web.archive.org/web/20101031002604/http://wold.livingsources.org/vocabulary/25
  2. ^ Ratliff, Martha (2010), Hmong-Mien language history (Studies in Language Change; 8), Canberra, Australia: Pacific Linguistics, →ISBN, page 260; 281.
  3. ^ Ratliff, Martha (2010), Hmong-Mien language history (Studies in Language Change; 8), Canberra, Australia: Pacific Linguistics, →ISBN, page 281.
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