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White Hmong
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Likely borrowed from Middle Chinese 剪 (MC tsjenX, “to cut”).[1]
Verb
txiav
- to cut, cut off, chop
- to decide, to fix
Etymology 2
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Particularly: “Not mentioned by Ratliff at all. Bears similarity to Chinese 膵 (cuì, “pancreas”); however, 膵 is a wasei kango from 1805, and would only have at most 100 years of extant usage in mainland China, if even that (as its usage would be superseded by 胰 (yí), which itself seems to be an older character repurposed to mean "pancreas"). If related, this would indicate a narrow timeframe for a rather academic borrowing; it is worth noting that Google Translate does not give a translation for "pancreas" into Hmong, while Heimbach translates "txiav" as "spleen".”
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Noun
txiav[2]
- the pancreas
- (uncommon) the spleen
- Synonym: po
References
- Heimbach, Ernest E. (1979) White Hmong — English Dictionary, SEAP Publications, →ISBN, page 301.