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hnia
a word from vocabulary
White Hmong
by
Martha Ratliff
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Word form
hnia
LWT meaning(s)
to sniff
to kiss
Word meaning
to sniff, kiss
Grammatical info
‘to kiss’ requires reciprocal prefix sib-
Analyzability
unanalyzable
Age
1-Hmong-Mien [25] (-500–500)
Loanword Information
Borrowed status
2. probably borrowed
Comments
Hmong-Mien *hmji̯əmH
Source words
Unidentifiable
Unidentified
*s-nam
'to smell'
Tibeto-Burman
Effect
Replacement
Salience
Present in pre-contact environment
Contact situation
Ancient contact with a Tibeto-Burman language [25]
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