ཁྱིམ་རྒྱུད

ཁྱིམ་རྒྱུད

Tibetan

Etymology

ཁྱིམ (khyim, “house, home”) +‎ རྒྱུད (rgyud, “string; connection, relation”).

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*kʰʲim.rɡʲut/
• Lhasa: /ˀcʰim˥˥.cyː˥˩/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*kʰʲim.rɡʲut/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: kyim^f-gyue^h
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /ˀcʰim˥˥.cyː˥˩/

Noun

ཁྱིམ་རྒྱུད • (khyim rgyud)

1. family; clan, lineage