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White Hmong
Etymology
From Proto-Hmong-Mien *-ʔræi (“vegetable”); cognate with Iu Mien lai and perhaps Middle Chinese 卉 (MC xjw+jX|xjw+jH, “herbs, vegetation”).[1] Likely unrelated to Vietnamese rau (“leafy greens, leaf vegetable”), despite superficial similarities.
Pronunciation
Noun
zaub
- leafy greens; leafy vegetables
- vegetables
- (colloquial) vegetarian
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 286.