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བྱི་ལ

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Ladakhi

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Noun

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བྱི་ལ (byi la)

  1. cat

Tibetan

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Etymology

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From an Indo-Aryan source;[1] compare Hindi बिल्ला (billā). Schuessler (2007) additionally proposes that element byi may be native Sino-Tibetan origin and cognate with Old Chinese 貔 (OC *bi).[2]

Pronunciation

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Noun

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བྱི་ལ • (byi la)

  1. cat

Hyponyms

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References

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  1. ^ Jäschke, Heinrich August (1881) A Tibetan-English dictionary, Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, page 376
  2. ^ Schuessler, Axel (2007) ABC Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, page 412

References

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