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Atong (India)
Etymology
Ultimately from Sanskrit नियम (niyama).
Noun
niam
- custom, law, tradition
References
White Hmong
Etymology
From Proto-Hmong *minᴰ (“female”).[1] Despite phonetic similarity of the descendant forms of both Proto-Hmongic and Proto-Sinitic, likely not related to Chinese 女 (nǚ, “woman”).
Pronunciation
Noun
niam
- mother, woman
- an older female relative
- (Christianity) nun
- (Religion) a female member of religious community
Derived terms
References
- Heimbach, Ernest E. (1979) White Hmong — English Dictionary, SEAP Publications, →ISBN.
- ^ Ratliff, Martha (2010) Hmong-Mien language history (Studies in Language Change; 8), Camberra, Australia: Pacific Linguistics, →ISBN, page 41; 277.