ཁྱི

Tibetan

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *d-kʷəj-n. Cognate with Chinese 犬 (OC *kʰʷeːnʔ).

Pronunciation

Old Tibetan: /*kʰʲi/
Lhasa: /cʰi˥˥/

Old Tibetan:
- IPA^(key): /*kʰʲi/ (reconstructed)
Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan Pinyin: kyi^f
- (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /cʰi˥˥/

Noun

ཁྱི • (khyi)

dog

Derived terms

ཁྱི་ཕྲུག (khyi phrug, “puppy”)
དོ་ཁྱི (do khyi)
འདོག་ཁྱི ('dog khyi, “guard dog”)
འདོགས་ཁྱི ('dogs khyi, “mastiff”)
འབྲོག་ཁྱི ('brog khyi, “Tibetan mastiff”)

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