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White Hmong
Etymology
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Particularly: “Doesn't really look like Proto-Hmong-Mien *ɟa (“eggplant”), itself borrowed from Middle Chinese 茄 (MC gja|kae),[1] and yet doesn't look like the forms for "eggplant" in any neighbor language either. Maybe it is from the proto-HM form, via some unexpected sound changes? Or maybe it's an autochthonous "sound-symbolic" form (compare Armenian լոլիկ (lolik, “tomato”) for a similar semantic development from a "lol"-type sound)? On the other hand, it does look a bit like the second syllable of Indonesian terung (“eggplant”).”
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Pronunciation
Noun
lws (classifier lub)
- eggplant
References
- ^ Ratliff, Martha (2010) Hmong-Mien language history (Studies in Language Change; 8), Camberra, Australia: Pacific Linguistics, →ISBN, page 119.
- Heimbach, Ernest E. (1979) White Hmong — English Dictionary, SEAP Publications, →ISBN.