hmo
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Translingual[edit]
Symbol[edit]
hmo
White Hmong[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Hmong-Mien *hməŋH (“night”). Cognate with Iu Mien hmuangz; outside of Hmong-Mien, cognate with Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-mun (“dark”) (whence Old Chinese 昏 (OC *hmɯːn, “dusk, dark”)) and *muːŋ ~ r/s-muːk (“misty; dark”) (whence 矇 (OC *moːŋ, “blind; dark”) and perhaps 冥 (OC *meːŋ, “dark; deep; underworld”)).[1]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
hmo
Derived terms[edit]
- hmo ntuj (“nighttime”)
- ib tag hmo (“midnight”)
- nag hmo (“last night, yesterday”)
- noj hmo (“to dine, eat dinner”)
References[edit]
- ^ Ratliff, Martha (2010) Hmong-Mien language history (Studies in Language Change; 8), Camberra, Australia: Pacific Linguistics, →ISBN, pages 13; 40-1; 275.