ntsej
White Hmong
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- ntseg (under tone sandhi)
Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Hmong-Mien *mbræu (“ear”).[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]ntsej
Derived terms
[edit]- ntsej muag (“face”)
- pob ntseg (“outer ear”)
- qhov ntsej (“ear canal”)
- taub ntseg (“earlobe”, literally “squash-ear”)
References
[edit]- Heimbach, Ernest E. (1979) White Hmong — English Dictionary[1], SEAP Publications, →ISBN, page 199.
- ^ Ratliff, Martha (2010) Hmong-Mien language history (Studies in Language Change; 8), Camberra, Australia: Pacific Linguistics, →ISBN, page 202; 279.