རྒིལ་འག་སྨེ་ཡེར

Dzongkha edit

Etymology edit

Uncertain. Compare Old Chinese 銀河 (“Milky Way (lit. silver river)”).

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): /kil˩.kɑ˩.me˥.jer˩/

Old Tibetan: /*rɡil.ɣak.zme.jer/

Old Tibetan:
- IPA^(key): /*rɡil.ɣak.zme.jer/ (reconstructed)

Noun edit

རྒིལ་འག་སྨེ་ཡེར (rgil 'ag sme yer)

the Milky Way galaxy

Synonyms edit

སྐར་ཚོགས (skar tshogs)

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