niam

Atong (India)

Etymology

Ultimately from Sanskrit नियम (niyama).

Noun

niam

  1. custom, law, tradition

Further reading

White Hmong

Etymology

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

  • IPA(key): /niə̯˩̰/

Noun

niam

  1. mother, woman
  2. an older female relative
  3. (Christianity) nun
  4. (religion) a female member of religious community

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Ratliff, Martha (2010) Hmong-Mien language history (Studies in Language Change; 8), Camberra, Australia: Pacific Linguistics, →ISBN, page 41; 277.

Further reading

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