ཁ་ཝ

Kurtöp

ཁ་ཝ་

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *kak (“chicken”) + *w(a/u) (“fowl”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kʰə́.wə/

Noun

ཁ་ཝ (khawa)

1. hen

Derived terms

• ཁའུ་ཏི (khauti)

 

References

• G. Hyslop, K. Tshering, K. Lhendrup, P. Chhophyel (2016) Kurtöp-English-Dzongkha dictionary (draft), page 20
• Gwendolyn Hyslop (2017) A grammar of Kurtöp, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 103