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).

Pronoun

pob

  1. everyone, everybody

Welsh

Alternative forms

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

Determiner

pob

  1. each, every

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˥/

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Mandarin (to cover, wrap; bag, package).[1][2]

Noun

pob

  1. ball
  2. prefix used in compounds to denote lumpy things, like stones, knots, tree stumps, and earlobes

Noun

pob

  1. only used in pob txha (bone, skeleton, fossil)

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
  1. https://web.archive.org/web/20101031002604/http://wold.livingsources.org/vocabulary/25
  2. Ratliff, Martha (2010) Hmong-Mien language history (Studies in Language Change; 8), Camberra, Australia: Pacific Linguistics, →ISBN, page 200.
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