sawv
White Hmong
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Hmong-Mien *sjouX (“to stand, get up”).[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]sawv
Derived terms
[edit]- sawv cev (“to represent”)
- sawv daws (“everyone”)
- sawv hlo (“to get up”)
- sawv ntsug (“to stand up”)
- sawv ntxov (“morning”)
- zaj sawv (“rainbow”)
References
[edit]- Heimbach, Ernest E. (1979) White Hmong — English Dictionary[1], SEAP Publications, →ISBN, page 290.
- ^ Ratliff, Martha (2010) Hmong-Mien language history (Studies in Language Change; 8), Camberra, Australia: Pacific Linguistics, →ISBN, page 282.