txaj

White Hmong

Etymology 1

From Proto-Hmong *dzaŋᴬ (“ashamed”), borrowed from Middle Chinese 慚 (MC dzam, “ashamed, embarrassed”).^[1]

Adjective

txaj

ashamed, embarrassed

Derived terms

txaj muag (“shame-faced, ashamed”)

Etymology 2

This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.
Particularly: “Not mentioned by Ratliff at all. Maybe borrowed from Chinese 間／间 (jiān, “room, chamber”)? chav means the same thing though and *is* thought to derive from 間; does that make "txaj" a different term or a variant. If the former, related to Etymology 3 via a metonymic shift (bed)?”

Noun

txaj (classifier: lub)

a room
txaj pw ― a bedroom

txaj tsev ― a room in a house

Etymology 3

This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.
Particularly: “Considered native Hmongic by Ratliff, though no reconstructed proto-form is given.^[2] Related to Middle Chinese 床 (MC dzrjang, “bed”)?”

Noun

txaj (classifier: lub)

a bed, a sleeping platform
a mattress

References

Heimbach, Ernest E. (1979) White Hmong — English Dictionary‎^[1], SEAP Publications, →ISBN, page 373.

^ Ratliff, Martha (2010) Hmong-Mien language history (Studies in Language Change; 8), Camberra, Australia: Pacific Linguistics, →ISBN, page 166; 284.
^ https://web.archive.org/web/20101031002604/http://wold.livingsources.org/vocabulary/25

[1] Ratliff, Martha (2010) Hmong-Mien language history (Studies in Language Change; 8), Camberra, Australia: Pacific Linguistics, →ISBN, page 166; 284.

[2] ttps://web.archive.org/web/20101031002604/http://wold.livingsources.org/vocabulary/25

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