npua
Appearance
White Hmong
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Hmong *mpæᶜ (“pig”). Compare Proto-Sino-Tibetan *pʷak (“id”), whence perhaps Old Chinese 豝 (OC *praː, “sow”).[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]npua
Derived terms
[edit]- nqaij npuas (“pork”)
References
[edit]- ^ Ratliff, Martha (2010) Hmong-Mien language history (Studies in Language Change; 8), Camberra, Australia: Pacific Linguistics, →ISBN, pages 38-9; 278.