བུད་མེད

Tibetan

Etymology

Schuessler (2007) compares it to Burmese မ (ma., “sister”) (whence အစ်မ (acma., “elder sister”), ညီမ (nyima., “younger sister”)), Miju ku-mai- (“woman”), Chinese 妹 (mèi, “younger sister”), and also Mizo hmei (“concubine”) (> Mizo hmei-chhia (“woman; wife”)).

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*but.met/
• Lhasa: /pʰyː˩˧˨.meː˥˨/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*but.met/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: pue^w-mee^h
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /pʰyː˩˧˨.meː˥˨/

Noun

བུད་མེད • (bud med)

1. woman