Plant names in Lao
Classifiers
- dok : flower
- 'houa : tuber
- khua : liana
- kǒk : plant
- mai2 : wood
- 'mak : fruit
- 'nha2 : herb
- 'phǎk : vegetable
Those qualifiers go before the name itself, and Vidal mentions them in brackets after the name.
Source
Vidal Jules,1959. IV. Noms vernaculaires de plantes (lao, mèo, kha) en usage au Laos. Bulletin de l'Ecole française d'Extrême-Orient. 49(2): 435-608. upload the article
This article gives any precision the mode of transcription of lao names, and writes them in lao script.