pob
Cornish
Etymology
From Proto-Brythonic *pọb, from Proto-Celtic *kʷākʷos (compare Old Irish cách), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷeh₂-kʷo-; cognate with Old Church Slavonic какъ (kakŭ, “what kind of”) and Lithuanian kõks (“what kind of”).
Welsh
Alternative forms
- pawb (literary)
Etymology
From Middle Welsh pawb, from Old Welsh paup, from Proto-Brythonic *pọb, from Proto-Celtic *kʷākʷos (compare Cornish pub, Breton peb, Old Irish cách), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷeh₂-kʷo- (compare Lithuanian kóks (“any, some, whatever”), Old Church Slavonic какъ (kakŭ, “what kind of”)).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /poːb/
- Rhymes: -oːb
Mutation
Welsh mutation | |||
---|---|---|---|
radical | soft | nasal | aspirate |
pob | bob | mhob | phob |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
References
- R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “pob”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
- Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, pages 173-4
White Hmong
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pɒ˥/
Noun
pob
References
- Heimbach, Ernest E. (1979) White Hmong — English Dictionary, SEAP Publications, →ISBN.
- John Duffy (2007) Writing from These Roots: Literacy in a Hmong-American Community, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, →ISBN
- https://web.archive.org/web/20101031002604/http://wold.livingsources.org/vocabulary/25
- Ratliff, Martha (2010) Hmong-Mien language history (Studies in Language Change; 8), Camberra, Australia: Pacific Linguistics, →ISBN, page 200.
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