ཉི་ཤུ
See also: ཉ་ཤ
Sikkimese
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Numeral
ཉི་ཤུ (nyi shu)
References
- Norden Tshering; Pema Rinzin Takchungdarpo (2001), ལྙོ་དབྱིན་ ཤན་སྦྱར་གྱི་ ཆིག་མཇོ་ད།། [Lho dbyin shan sbyar gyi chig mjo da., Bhutia-English Dictionary][1] (overall work in English and Sikkimese), Gangtok, Sikkim: Kwality Stores, page 62
Tibetan
| ← 10 | ← 19 | ༢༠ 20 |
21 → | 30 → |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | ||||
| Cardinal: ཉི་ཤུ (nyi shu) Ordinal: ཉི་ཤུ་བ (nyi shu ba) | ||||
Etymology
From གཉིས (gnyis, “two”) + བཅུ (bcu, “ten”).
Pronunciation
- Old Tibetan: /*ȵi.ɕu/
- Lhasa: /ȵi˩˨.ɕu˥˥/
- Batang: /ȵɪ˩˧ xhu˥˧/
- Dêgê: /ȵe˩˧ xu˥˧/
- Zêkog: /ȵə xhə/
- Bla-Brang: /ȵə xhə/
- Old Tibetan:
- IPA(key): /*ȵi.ɕu/ (reconstructed)
- Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan pinyin: nyiv-xuf
- (Lhasa) IPA(key): /ȵi˩˨.ɕu˥˥/
- Khams
- Amdo
Numeral
ཉི་ཤུ • (nyi shu)