tsawg
White Hmong
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Hmong-Mien *dzjok (“few; to lack”).[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]tsawg
- few, least, not many, a little, puny
- Amelikas tsev neeg tsawg dua Hmoob. ― American families are smaller than Hmong (families).
- used in pes tsawg (“how many?, how much?”)
References
[edit]- Heimbach, Ernest E. (1979) White Hmong — English Dictionary[1], SEAP Publications, →ISBN, page 347.
- ^ Ratliff, Martha (2010) Hmong-Mien language history (Studies in Language Change; 8), Camberra, Australia: Pacific Linguistics, →ISBN, page 284.