tias

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See also: TIAs, TIAS, tías, and ți-aș

English

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Noun

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tias

  1. plural of tia

Portuguese

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Pronunciation

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  • Hyphenation: ti‧as

Noun

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tias

  1. plural of tia

Swedish

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Noun

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tias

  1. indefinite genitive singular of tia

White Hmong

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.
Particularly: “Not mentioned by Ratliff at all. Doesn't seem to resemble anything in the MSEA area, and the way it serves as a conjunction similar to English that (and even sounds similar to "that") doesn't seem to be done by most other languages in the area. The closest analogue might be Japanese と (to, “complement marker”), which also starts with an alveolar stop, funnily enough.”

Particle

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tias

  1. restricted post-verbal intensifier used after verbs involving speech, sound, or thought, similar to the English usage of that, though with said above restrictions
    Kuv xav tias zaub mov qab zoo. ― I think (that) food tastes good.

Etymology 2

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This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.
Particularly: “Not mentioned by Ratliff at all. Doesn't seem to have any similar comparanda in the MSEA area. There's a similarity to the first character in Chinese 胎記／胎记 (tāijì, “birthmark”, literally “fetus mark”), but a supposed clipping of a disyllabic character (especially when the first character does not carry the full meaning of the compound) seems uncharacteristic of Sinitic borrowings into Hmongic.”

Noun

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tias (classifier: lub)

  1. a birthmark on the face

References

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  • Heimbach, Ernest E. (1979) White Hmong — English Dictionary‎[1], SEAP Publications, →ISBN, page 320.
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