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Buli (Ghana)
Noun
nyiam
- water
2006, Bulsa Sunsuelima: Erotic Folktales of the Bulsa in Northern Ghana, volume 2, pages 110 and 111:[Nipowa] ain wa be ngari nyiam te fi [wa] ya? [...] Wa nye nyiam te wa, wa so ya.- asked if she should fetch water andgive it to you ? She brought him water and he washed .
White Hmong
Etymology
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Particularly: “Not mentioned by Ratliff at all. The only other word in the area with similar form and semantics is the sound-symbolic Japanese にやにや (niyaniya, “grinning”); perhaps the Hmong term is also an ad-hoc sound-symbolic formation then.”
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Pronunciation
Verb
nyiam
- to like, to favor, to care for
- Kuv nyiam cev tiab no. ― I like this dress.
References
- Heimbach, Ernest E. (1979) White Hmong — English Dictionary, SEAP Publications, →ISBN, page 219.