taub

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Alemannic German[edit]

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taub

  1. (Uri) angry

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German[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Middle High German toup, toub, from Old High German toub, from Proto-West Germanic *daub, from Proto-Germanic *daubaz, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewbʰ- (to whisk, be obscured); cognate to English deaf, Swedish döv.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /taʊ̯p/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -aʊ̯p

Adjective[edit]

taub (strong nominative masculine singular tauber, comparative tauber, superlative am taubsten)

  1. deaf (not hearing)
    taub auf einem Ohrdeaf in one ear
  2. numb
  3. (of nuts lacking the seed) empty
    taube Nussnumskull (literally, “empty nut”)

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Further reading[edit]

  • taub” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
  • taub” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
  • taub” in Duden online

White Hmong[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Hmong *tuwᴬ (gourd),[1] possibly borrowed from Central Tai *tauᴮ.[2]

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Noun[edit]

taub (classifier: lub)

  1. gourd, squash

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References[edit]

  • Heimbach, Ernest E. (1979) White Hmong — English Dictionary[1], SEAP Publications, →ISBN, page 307.
  1. ^ Ratliff, Martha (2010) Hmong-Mien language history (Studies in Language Change; 8), Camberra, Australia: Pacific Linguistics, →ISBN, page 283.
  2. ^ https://web.archive.org/web/20101031002604/http://wold.livingsources.org/vocabulary/25