སུམ་ཅུ

Tibetan

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Cardinal: སུམ་ཅུ (sum cu)     Ordinal: སུམ་ཅུ་པ (sum cu pa)

Etymology

From གསུམ (gsum, “three”) +‎ བཅུ (bcu, “ten (in compounds)”).

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*sum.t͡ɕu/
• Lhasa: /sum˥˥.t͡ɕu˥˥/
• Batang: /sʰɑ̃˥˥ t͡ɕu˥˧/
• Dêgê: /suŋ˥˥ t͡ɕu˥˧/
• Zêkog: /sʰəm t͡ɕə/
• Bla-Brang: /sʰəm t͡ɕə/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*sum.t͡ɕu/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: sum^f-ju^f
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /sum˥˥.t͡ɕu˥˥/
• Khams
  • (Batang) IPA^(key): /sʰɑ̃˥˥ t͡ɕu˥˧/
  • (Dêgê) IPA^(key): /suŋ˥˥ t͡ɕu˥˧/
• Amdo
  • (Zêkog) IPA^(key): /sʰəm t͡ɕə/
  • (Bla-Brang) IPA^(key): /sʰəm t͡ɕə/

Numeral

སུམ་ཅུ • (sum cu)

1. thirty