See tuaj in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "mww",
"2": "hmx-pro",
"3": "*daj",
"t": "to come"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Hmong-Mien *daj (“to come”)",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "ium",
"2": "daaih"
},
"expansion": "Iu Mien daaih",
"name": "cog"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Proto-Hmong-Mien *daj (“to come”). Cognate with Iu Mien daaih.",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "mww",
"2": "verb"
},
"expansion": "tuaj",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "White Hmong",
"lang_code": "mww",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "49 15 36",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "59 5 36",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "61 3 35",
"kind": "other",
"name": "White Hmong entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1994, Sue Murphy Mote, Hmong and American: Stories of Transition to a Strange Land, →ISBN, page 262:",
"text": "“Koj tuaj los[?]” (“You've come, eh?”) […] “Kuv tuaj os[.]” (“I've come.”)",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"to come (to a place which is not one's home / a place where one does not reside)"
],
"id": "en-tuaj-mww-verb-udeYCAKD",
"links": [
[
"come",
"come"
],
[
"place",
"place"
],
[
"home",
"home"
],
[
"not",
"not"
],
[
"reside",
"reside"
]
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "los"
}
]
},
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"english": "Birds have feathers.",
"text": "Noog tuaj plaub.",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"to bear, to put forth (as of horns, hair, feathers, a tail, etc.)"
],
"id": "en-tuaj-mww-verb-nuNWbKWz",
"links": [
[
"bear",
"bear"
],
[
"put forth",
"put forth"
],
[
"horns",
"horns"
],
[
"hair",
"hair"
],
[
"feathers",
"feathers"
],
[
"tail",
"tail"
]
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"to sprout, to come up out of the ground"
],
"id": "en-tuaj-mww-verb-5IEFTjjv",
"links": [
[
"sprout",
"sprout"
],
[
"come up",
"come up"
],
[
"out of",
"out of"
],
[
"ground",
"ground"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/tuə̯˥˧/"
}
],
"word": "tuaj"
}
{
"categories": [
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries",
"White Hmong entries with incorrect language header",
"White Hmong lemmas",
"White Hmong terms derived from Proto-Hmong-Mien",
"White Hmong terms inherited from Proto-Hmong-Mien",
"White Hmong terms with IPA pronunciation",
"White Hmong verbs"
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "mww",
"2": "hmx-pro",
"3": "*daj",
"t": "to come"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Hmong-Mien *daj (“to come”)",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "ium",
"2": "daaih"
},
"expansion": "Iu Mien daaih",
"name": "cog"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Proto-Hmong-Mien *daj (“to come”). Cognate with Iu Mien daaih.",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "mww",
"2": "verb"
},
"expansion": "tuaj",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "White Hmong",
"lang_code": "mww",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Requests for translations of White Hmong quotations",
"White Hmong terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1994, Sue Murphy Mote, Hmong and American: Stories of Transition to a Strange Land, →ISBN, page 262:",
"text": "“Koj tuaj los[?]” (“You've come, eh?”) […] “Kuv tuaj os[.]” (“I've come.”)",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"to come (to a place which is not one's home / a place where one does not reside)"
],
"links": [
[
"come",
"come"
],
[
"place",
"place"
],
[
"home",
"home"
],
[
"not",
"not"
],
[
"reside",
"reside"
]
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "los"
}
]
},
{
"categories": [
"White Hmong terms with usage examples"
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "Birds have feathers.",
"text": "Noog tuaj plaub.",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"to bear, to put forth (as of horns, hair, feathers, a tail, etc.)"
],
"links": [
[
"bear",
"bear"
],
[
"put forth",
"put forth"
],
[
"horns",
"horns"
],
[
"hair",
"hair"
],
[
"feathers",
"feathers"
],
[
"tail",
"tail"
]
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"to sprout, to come up out of the ground"
],
"links": [
[
"sprout",
"sprout"
],
[
"come up",
"come up"
],
[
"out of",
"out of"
],
[
"ground",
"ground"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/tuə̯˥˧/"
}
],
"word": "tuaj"
}
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