ལྷོ

Dzongkha

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *khlaŋ (“south, lower, down”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɬo˥/

Noun

ལྷོ (lho)

1. south

Kurtöp

Etymology

Related to Dzongkha ལྷོ (lho) and Tibetan ལྷོ (lho).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [l̥ó]

Noun

ལྷོ (lho)

1. south

References

• G. Hyslop, K. Tshering, K. Lhendrup, P. Chhophyel (2016) Kurtöp-English-Dzongkha dictionary (draft), page 234
• Gwendolyn Hyslop (2017) A grammar of Kurtöp, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 149

Tibetan

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*l̥o/
• Lhasa: /ɬo˥˥/
• Batang: /ɬu˥˧/
• Dêgê: /ɬo˥˧/
• Zêkog: /ɬo/
• Bla-Brang: /ɬo/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*l̥o/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: lho^f
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /ɬo˥˥/
• Khams
  • (Batang) IPA^(key): /ɬu˥˧/
  • (Dêgê) IPA^(key): /ɬo˥˧/
• Amdo
  • (Zêkog) IPA^(key): /ɬo/
  • (Bla-Brang) IPA^(key): /ɬo/

Noun

ལྷོ • (lho)

1. south

See also

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ནུབ་བྱང (nub byang)	བྱང (byang)	བྱང་ཤར (byang shar)
ནུབ (nub)		ཤར (shar)
ལྷོ་ནུབ (lho nub)	ལྷོ (lho)	ཤར་ལྷོ (shar lho)