cev

• cijȇv (Ijekavian)

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *cěvь (“tube, spool”).

• IPA^(key): /t͡sêːʋ/

cȇv f (Cyrillic spelling це̑в)

1. tube
2. duct
3. pipe

• “cev”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024

From Proto-Slavic *cěvь (“tube, spool”).

• IPA^(key): /t͡séːʋ/

cẹ̑v f

1. tube, pipe

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.

Feminine, i-stem, long mixed accent
nom. sing.	cév
gen. sing.	ceví
	singular	dual	plural
nominative (imenovȃlnik)	cév	ceví	ceví
genitive (rodȋlnik)	ceví	ceví	ceví
dative (dajȃlnik)	cévi	cevéma	cevém
accusative (tožȋlnik)	cév	ceví	ceví
locative (mẹ̑stnik)	cévi	cevéh	cevéh
instrumental (orọ̑dnik)	cevjó	cevéma	cevmí

From Proto-Hmong *cæwᴮ (“body, trunk”). Related to Proto-Hmong *ɟæwᴮ (“leg, branch”), whence ces, ceg (“leg, branch”).^[1]

• IPA^(key): /ce˧˦/

cev (classifier: lub)

1. body, trunk, main frame

• Heimbach, Ernest E. (1979) White Hmong — English Dictionary‎^[1], SEAP Publications, →ISBN, page 11.