tuaj

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White Hmong

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Etymology

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From Proto-Hmong-Mien *daj (to come). Cognate with Iu Mien daaih.[1]

Pronunciation

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Verb

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tuaj

  1. to come (to a place which is not one's home / a place where one does not reside)
    Synonym: los
    • 1994, Sue Murphy Mote, Hmong and American: Stories of Transition to a Strange Land, →ISBN, page 262:
      Koj tuaj los[?]” (“You've come, eh?”) [] Kuv tuaj os[.]” (“I've come.”)
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
  2. to bear, to put forth (as of horns, hair, feathers, a tail, etc.)
    Noog tuaj plaub.Birds have feathers.
  3. to sprout, to come up out of the ground

References

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  • Heimbach, Ernest E. (1979) White Hmong — English Dictionary[1], SEAP Publications, →ISBN, page 328.
  1. ^ Ratliff, Martha (2010) Hmong-Mien language history (Studies in Language Change; 8), Camberra, Australia: Pacific Linguistics, →ISBN, page 283.