ཁྭི

Kurtöp

Etymology

From Proto-Bodish *kʰʷi, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *d-kʷəj-n. Cognates include Mandarin 犬 (quǎn) and Tibetan ཁྱི (khyi).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [kʰwí]

Noun

ཁྭི (khwi)

  1. dog

References

  • G. Hyslop; K. Tshering; K. Lhendrup; P. Chhophyel (2016), “khwi”, in Kurtöp-English-Dzongkha dictionary (draft)
  • Gwendolyn Hyslop (2017), A grammar of Kurtöp, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 100
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