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Tibetan

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Etymology

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Maybe related to Chinese (OC *kɯ, *ɡɯ).

Pronunciation

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Particle

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གི (gi)

  1. One of the five genitive particles, used after (ga) or (nga).

Usage notes

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The five genitive particles are: འི ('i) (after vowels), ཡི (yi) (after vowels), གི (gi) (after -g or -ng), ཀྱི (kyi) (after -d, -b, -s) and གྱི (gyi) (after -n, -m, -r, -l).

The last three are usually pronounced identically in Lhasa Tibetan, and may be all written as གི (gi).