ཁྭི

ཁྭི

Kurtop

ཁྭི་

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *d-kʷəj-n. Cognates include Mandarin 犬 (quǎn) and Tibetan ཁྱི (khyi).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kʰwí/

Noun

ཁྭི (khwi)

1. dog

References

• G. Hyslop; K. Tshering; K. Lhendrup; P. Chhophyel (2016), “khwi”, in Kurtöp-English-Dzongkha dictionary (draft)
• Gwendolyn Hyslop (2017) A grammar of Kurtöp, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 100