ཁྱི

Tibetan

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*kʰʲi/
• Lhasa: /cʰi˥˥/

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

Noun

ཁྱི • (khyi)

1. 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”)