hnia

== White Hmong == === Etymology === From Proto-Hmong-Mien *hmji̯əmH (“to sniff at”), likely related to Proto-Sino-Tibetan *m/s-nam (“to smell”), whence Tibetan སྣོམ་པ (snom pa, “to smell”) and Chinese 聞／闻 (wén, “to smell; to hear”). The "kiss" meaning is a semantic extension of the original "sniff" meaning. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /n̥iə̯˧/ === Verb === hnia to sniff at, to smell something intentionally to kiss Kuv xav hnia koj. ― I want to kiss you. === References === Heimbach, Ernest E. (1979), White Hmong — English Dictionary‎[1], SEAP Publications, →ISBN, page 69.