བཅུ

Balti

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *ts(j)i(j) ~ tsjaj (“ten”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /bt͡ʃu/, [bt͡ʃu]

Numeral

བཅུ (bcu)

ten, 10

References

Sprigg, R.K. (2002) Balti-English/English-Balti Dictionary, New York: Routledge

Tibetan

Etymology 1

**Tibetan numbers ^(edit)**
		100
← 1	← 9	10	11 →	20 →
		1
Cardinal: བཅུ (bcu) Ordinal: བཅུ་པ (bcu pa)

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *ts(j)i(j) ~ tsjaj (“ten”). Cognate with Burmese ဆယ် (hcai, “ten”).

Pronunciation

Old Tibetan: /*pt͡ɕu/
Lhasa: /t͡ɕu˥˥/
Batang: /t͡ɕu˥˧/
Dêgê: /t͡ɕu˥˧/
Gyaitang: /ʈ͡ʂə˥˥/
Zêkog: /pt͡ɕə/
Bla-Brang: /t͡ɕə/
Arik: /pt͡ɕə/
Maqu: /pt͡ɕə/

Old Tibetan:
- IPA^(key): /*pt͡ɕu/ (reconstructed)
Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan pinyin: ju^f
- (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /t͡ɕu˥˥/
Khams
- (Batang) IPA^(key): /t͡ɕu˥˧/
- (Dêgê) IPA^(key): /t͡ɕu˥˧/
- (Gyaitang) IPA^(key): /ʈ͡ʂə˥˥/
Amdo
- (Zêkog) IPA^(key): /pt͡ɕə/
- (Bla-Brang) IPA^(key): /t͡ɕə/
- (Arik) IPA^(key): /pt͡ɕə/
- (Maqu) IPA^(key): /pt͡ɕə/

Numeral

བཅུ • (bcu)

ten

Pronunciation

Old Tibetan: /*pt͡ɕu/
Lhasa: /t͡ɕu˥˥/

Old Tibetan:
- IPA^(key): /*pt͡ɕu/ (reconstructed)
Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan pinyin: ju^f
- (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /t͡ɕu˥˥/

Verb

བཅུ • (bcu) (nominal form བཅུ་བ)

future of འཆུ ('chu)

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