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སེ

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Kurtöp

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *səj. Cognates include Dzongkha ཤི (shi) and Tibetan འཆི ('chi).

Verb

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སེ (se)

  1. (intransitive) to die

Etymology 2

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Borrowed from Tibetan སྲས (sras).

Noun

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སེ (se)

  1. prince
  2. (honorific) son
Synonyms
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  • (son): (low register) བོ (bo)

References

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  • G. Hyslop, K. Tshering, K. Lhendrup, P. Chhophyel (2016) Kurtöp-English-Dzongkha dictionary (draft), page 225
  • Gwendolyn Hyslop (2017) A grammar of Kurtöp, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 174