pob

Cornish

Etymology

From Proto-Brythonic *pọb, from Proto-Celtic *kʷākʷos (compare Old Irish cách), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷeh₂-kʷo-; cognate with Old Church Slavonic какъ (kakŭ, “what kind of”) and Lithuanian kõks (“what kind of”).

Pronoun

pob

1. everyone, everybody

Welsh

Alternative forms

• pawb (literary)

Etymology

From Middle Welsh pawb, from Old Welsh paup, from Proto-Brythonic *pọb, from Proto-Celtic *kʷākʷos (compare Cornish pub, Breton peb, Old Irish cách), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷeh₂-kʷo- (compare Lithuanian kóks (“any, some, whatever”), Old Church Slavonic какъ (kakŭ, “what kind of”)).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /poːb/
• Rhymes: -oːb

Determiner

pob

1. each, every

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
pob	bob	mhob	phob
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “pob”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
• Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, pages 173-4

White Hmong

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɒ˥/

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Mandarin 包 (“to cover, wrap; bag, package”).

Noun

pob

1. ball
2. prefix used in compounds to denote lumpy things, like stones, knots, tree stumps, and earlobes

Etymology 2

Noun

pob

1. only used in pob txha (“bone, skeleton, fossil”)

References

• Heimbach, Ernest E. (1979) White Hmong — English Dictionary‎^[1], SEAP Publications, →ISBN.
• John Duffy (2007) Writing from These Roots: Literacy in a Hmong-American Community, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, →ISBN