tuaj
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White Hmong[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Hmong-Mien *daj (“to come”). Cognate with Iu Mien daaih.[1]
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
tuaj
- to come (to a place which is not one's home / a place where one does not reside)
- Synonym: los
- 1994, Sue Murphy Mote, Hmong and American: Stories of Transition to a Strange Land, →ISBN, page 262:
- “Koj tuaj los[?]” (“You've come, eh?”) […] “Kuv tuaj os[.]” (“I've come.”)
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- to bear, to put forth (as of horns, hair, feathers, a tail, etc.)
- Noog tuaj plaub. ― Birds have feathers.
- to sprout, to come up out of the ground
References[edit]
- Heimbach, Ernest E. (1979) White Hmong — English Dictionary[1], SEAP Publications, →ISBN, page 328.
- ^ Ratliff, Martha (2010) Hmong-Mien language history (Studies in Language Change; 8), Camberra, Australia: Pacific Linguistics, →ISBN, page 283.