པོ

Kurtöp

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /pó/

Etymology 1

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-pu. Cognates include Dzongkha སྤུ (spu) and Mandarin 髮／发 (fà).

Noun

པོ (po)

  1. fur

Etymology 2

Related to Dzongkha སྦུམ (sbum).

Noun

པོ (po)

  1. snake

References
  • Gwendolyn Hyslop (2011) A Grammar of Kurtöp (PhD thesis)‎, page 106
  • G. Hyslop, K. Tshering, K. Lhendrup, P. Chhophyel (2016) Kurtöp-English-Dzongkha dictionary (draft), page 133
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