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Esperanto
Adjective
pliaj
- plural of plia
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French pliage.
Noun
pliaj n (uncountable)
- folding
Declension
White Hmong
Etymology
From Proto-Hmong-Mien *bl-ᴬ (“forehead”); compare Proto-Tai *praːkᴰ (“id”), whence Thai ผาก (pàak, “id”).[1]
Pronunciation
Noun
pliaj
- (used in compounds) the forehead
Derived terms
- hau pliaj (“the forehead”)
- hauv pliaj (“the forehead”)
- plim pliaj (“to tilt the forehead back, to throw the head back with the forehead turned upward”)
References
- Heimbach, Ernest E. (1979) White Hmong — English Dictionary, SEAP Publications, →ISBN, page 251.
- ^ Ratliff, Martha (2010) Hmong-Mien language history (Studies in Language Change; 8), Camberra, Australia: Pacific Linguistics, →ISBN, page 47; 281.