khau

See also: kháu, khàu, khāu, khảu, khâu, khấu, and khẩu

Hokkien

For pronunciation and definitions of khau – see 剾 (“to pare (using knife); to blow; to satirize”). (This term is the pe̍h-ōe-jī form of 剾).

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

(Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [xaw˧˧]
(Huế) IPA^(key): [kʰaw˧˧] ~ [xaw˧˧]
(Saigon) IPA^(key): [kʰa(ː)w˧˧] ~ [xa(ː)w˧˧]

Noun

khau

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White Hmong

Etymology

From Proto-Hmong *khjɔᶜ (“shoes”), possibly borrowed from Middle Chinese 屨 (MC kjuH, “straw sandals”), though the Sinitic form is not aspirated.^[1]

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /kʰau̯˧/

Noun

khau (classifier: nkawm (for pairs))

shoe, shoes; footwear
rau khau ― to wear shoes

References

Heimbach, Ernest E. (1979) White Hmong — English Dictionary‎^[1], SEAP Publications, →ISBN, page 93.

^ Ratliff, Martha (2010) Hmong-Mien language history (Studies in Language Change; 8), Camberra, Australia: Pacific Linguistics, →ISBN, page 89; 276.

[1] Ratliff, Martha (2010) Hmong-Mien language history (Studies in Language Change; 8), Camberra, Australia: Pacific Linguistics, →ISBN, page 89; 276.

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