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ntais ntawv
a word from vocabulary
White Hmong
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Martha Ratliff
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Word form
ntais ntawv
LWT meaning(s)
the match
Analyzability
analyzable phrasal
Gloss
ntais + ntawv [lighter + paper]
Age
no information [25]
Loanword Information
Borrowed status
5. no evidence for borrowing
Comments
This word would seem a likely loanword candidate, but there is evidence that ntais may have originally meant ‘flint’.
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