tsev

White Hmong

Etymology

From Proto-Hmong-Mien *prəuX (“house”). Cognate with Iu Mien biauv,[1] as well as perhaps Chinese 廟／庙 (miào) (Schuessler, 2007).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /t͡ʂe˧˦/

Noun

tsev (classifier: lub)

  1. house; dwelling; building

Derived terms

Classifier

tsev

  1. classifier for households

References
  • Heimbach, Ernest E. (1979) White Hmong — English Dictionary‎, SEAP Publications, →ISBN, page 349.
  1. Ratliff, Martha (2010) Hmong-Mien language history (Studies in Language Change; 8), Camberra, Australia: Pacific Linguistics, →ISBN, page 242.
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