taub

See also: Taub

Alemannic German

Adjective

taub

  1. (Uri) angry

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References

German

Etymology

From Middle High German toup, toub, from Old High German toub, from Proto-West Germanic *daub, from Proto-Germanic *daubaz, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewbʰ- (to whisk, be obscured); cognate to English deaf, Swedish döv.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /taʊ̯p/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -aʊ̯p

Adjective

taub (strong nominative masculine singular tauber, comparative tauber, superlative am taubsten)

  1. deaf (not hearing)
    taub auf einem Ohrdeaf in one ear
  2. numb
  3. (of nuts lacking the seed) empty
    taube Nussnumskull (literally, “empty nut”)

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See also

Further reading

  • taub” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
  • taub” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
  • taub” in Duden online

White Hmong

Etymology

From Proto-Hmong *tuwᴬ (gourd),[1] possibly borrowed from Central Tai *tauᴮ.[2]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tau̯˥/

Noun

taub (classifier: lub)

  1. gourd, squash

Derived terms

References

  • Heimbach, Ernest E. (1979) White Hmong — English Dictionary, SEAP Publications, →ISBN, page 307.
  1. Ratliff, Martha (2010) Hmong-Mien language history (Studies in Language Change; 8), Camberra, Australia: Pacific Linguistics, →ISBN, page 283.
  2. https://web.archive.org/web/20101031002604/http://wold.livingsources.org/vocabulary/25
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