ཏི་ད་ལིང​

Kurtöp

Etymology

Partly from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-taj (“navel”), whence also Tibetan ལྟེ (lte), Dzongkha ལྟེཝ (ltew) and Mandarin 臍／脐 (qí).
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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t̪í.d̪ə.liŋ/

Noun

ཏི་ད་ལིང​ (tidaling)

1. navel
2. umbilical cord

References

• Gwendolyn Hyslop (2011) A Grammar of Kurtöp (PhD thesis)‎^[1], page 109
• G. Hyslop, K. Tshering, K. Lhendrup, P. Chhophyel (2016) Kurtöp-English-Dzongkha dictionary (draft), page 82