ntxuav

White Hmong

Etymology

From Proto-Hmong-Mien *ntsæwX (“to wash (hands)”), borrowed from Old Chinese 澡 (OC *ʔslaːwʔ, “to wash (one's hands)”).[1][2]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ⁿd͡zuə̯˧˦/

Verb

ntxuav

  1. to wash
    ntxuav tes ― to wash the hands
    ntxuav cev ― to wash the body (take a bath)
  2. to wash out a vessel
  3. to wash something off in water or other liquid

Derived terms
  • ntxuav duab (“to develop a photo”)

References
  • Heimbach, Ernest E. (1979) White Hmong — English Dictionary‎, SEAP Publications, →ISBN, page 214.
  1. Ratliff, Martha (2010) Hmong-Mien language history (Studies in Language Change; 8), Camberra, Australia: Pacific Linguistics, →ISBN, page 123; 280.
  2. https://web.archive.org/web/20101031002604/http://wold.livingsources.org/vocabulary/25
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