བྱི་ལ
Ladakhi
editNoun
editབྱི་ལ (byi la)
Tibetan
editEtymology
editFrom an Indo-Aryan source;[1] compare Hindi बिल्ला (billā). Schuessler (2007) additionally proposes that element byi may be native Sino-Tibetan origin and cognate with Old Chinese 貔 (OC *bi).[2]
Noun
editབྱི་ལ • (byi la)
Hyponyms
edit- བྱི་པོ (byi po, “tom cat”)
References
edit- ^ Jäschke, Heinrich August (1881) A Tibetan-English dictionary, Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, page 376
- ^ Schuessler, Axel (2007) ABC Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, page 412