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