nws
See also: NWS
English
Prepositional phrase
nws
- (Internet slang, text messaging) Initialism of no worries.
White Hmong
Etymology
From Proto-Hmong-Mien *ni̯æn(X) (“3SG (he/she/it)”). Cognate with Iu Mien ninh.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /nɨ˩/
Pronoun
nws
- he, she, it
- his, her, its
References
- Heimbach, Ernest E. (1979) White Hmong — English Dictionary, SEAP Publications, →ISBN.
- Ratliff, Martha (2010) Hmong-Mien Language History (Studies in Language Change; 8), Camberra, Australia: Pacific Linguistics, →ISBN.