niam
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Atong (India)
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Ultimately from Sanskrit नियम (niyama).
Noun
[edit]niam
References
[edit]- van Breugel, Seino. 2015. Atong-English dictionary, second edition. Available online: https://www.academia.edu/487044/Atong_English_Dictionary.
White Hmong
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Hmong *minᴰ (“female”).[1] Despite phonetic similarity of the descendant forms of both Proto-Hmongic and Proto-Sinitic, likely not related to Chinese 女 (nǚ, “woman”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]niam
- mother, woman
- an older female relative
- (Christianity) nun
- (Religion) a female member of religious community
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Ratliff, Martha (2010) Hmong-Mien language history (Studies in Language Change; 8), Camberra, Australia: Pacific Linguistics, →ISBN, page 41; 277.