ེའུ

See also: འ and འི

Tibetan

Etymology

Suffix འུ ('u) + ablaut when attached to a/o vowel stems. The former is from lenition of the བུ (bu, “child, son; diminutive suffix”).

Suffix

ེའུ • (e'u)

1. diminutive suffix

Derived terms

• མཐེའུ (mthe'u, “little finger”) - མཐེབ (mtheb, “thumb”)
• མཚེའུ (mtshe'u, “pond”) - མཚོ (mtsho, “lake”)
• རྫེའུ (rdze'u, “pipkin”) - རྫ (rdza, “earthenware”)
• ཟེའུ (ze'u, “anther, small bowl”) - ཟོ་བ (zo ba, “measuring vessel, bowl”)
• རེའུ (re'u, “baby goat”) - ར (ra, “goat”)
• ཉེའུ (nye'u, “small fish”) - ཉ (nya, “fish”)
• སྒེའུ (sge'u, “ginger”) - སྒ (sga, “ginger”)
• སྒེའུ (sge'u, “small door”) - སྒོ (sgo, “door”)
• སྤྲེའུ (spre'u, “monkey”) - སྤྲེལ (sprel, “monkey”)
• རྡེའུ (rde'u, “pebble”) - རྡོ (rdo, “stone”)
• བེའུ (be'u, “calf”) - བ (ba, “cow”)
• བྱེའུ (bye'u, “baby bird”) - བྱ (bya, “bird”)