འཁོར་ལོ

Tibetan edit

Etymology edit

A relationship with Chinese 軲轆／轱辘 (gūlu, “wheel”) was proposed in Bauer (1994), and both were hypothesised to have been derived from a common Sino-Tibetan word, borrowed from Proto-Indo-European *kʷékʷlos (“wheel”).

Pronunciation edit

Old Tibetan: /*ᵑkʰor.lo/
Lhasa: /kʰo˥˥.lo˥˥/

Old Tibetan:
- IPA^(key): /*ᵑkʰor.lo/ (reconstructed)
Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan pinyin: ko^f-lo^f
- (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /kʰo˥˥.lo˥˥/

Noun edit

འཁོར་ལོ • ('khor lo)

Derived terms edit

འཁོར་ལོ་བཀག ('khor lo bkag)