ཏི་ད་ལིང
Kurtop
Etymology
Partly from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-taj (“navel”), whence also Tibetan ལྟེ (lte), Dzongkha ལྟེཝ (ltew) and Mandarin 臍 (qí).
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Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t̪í.d̪ə.liŋ/
Noun
ཏི་ད་ལིང (tidaling)
- navel
- umbilical cord
References
- Gwendolyn Hyslop (2011) A Grammar of Kurtöp (PhD thesis), page 109
- G. Hyslop; K. Tshering; K. Lhendrup; P. Chhophyel (2016) Kurtöp-English-Dzongkha dictionary (draft), page 82