ཁྭི

Kurtöp
ཁྭི་

Etymology

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

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /kʰwí/

Noun

ཁྭི (khwi) (genitive-ergative ཁྭི་ཡི or ཁྭི་གི or ཁྭཱི)

  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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