པོ

Kurtöp

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pó/

Etymology 1

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-pu. Cognates include Dzongkha སྤུ (spu) and Mandarin 髮／发 (fà).

Noun

པོ (po)

1. fur

Etymology 2

Related to Dzongkha སྦུམ (sbum).

Noun

པོ (po)

1. snake

References

• Gwendolyn Hyslop (2011) A Grammar of Kurtöp (PhD thesis)‎^[1], page 106
• G. Hyslop, K. Tshering, K. Lhendrup, P. Chhophyel (2016) Kurtöp-English-Dzongkha dictionary (draft), page 133