tuaj

White Hmong

Etymology

From Proto-Hmong-Mien *daj (“to come”). Cognate with Iu Mien daaih.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tuə̯˥˧/

Verb

tuaj

1. to come (to a place which is not one's home / a place where one does not reside)

   Synonym: los

   • 1994, Sue Murphy Mote, Hmong and American: Stories of Transition to a Strange Land, →ISBN, page 262:

     “Koj tuaj los[?]” (“You've come, eh?”) […] “Kuv tuaj os[.]” (“I've come.”)

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. to bear, to put forth (as of horns, hair, feathers, a tail, etc.)

   Noog tuaj plaub. ― Birds have feathers.

3. to sprout, to come up out of the ground

References

• Heimbach, Ernest E. (1979) White Hmong — English Dictionary‎^[1], SEAP Publications, →ISBN, page 328.