ཁྭི

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Kurtöp[edit]

ཁྭི་

Etymology[edit]

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

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

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

  1. dog

References[edit]

  • 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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