ཇིན​

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Kurtöp

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-lij. Cognates include Tibetan ལྗིད (ljid) and Dzongkha ལྗིད (ljid).

Pronunciation

Noun

ཇིན​ (jin​)

  1. weight

References

  • Gwendolyn Hyslop (2011) A Grammar of Kurtöp (PhD thesis), page 117
  • G. Hyslop, K. Tshering, K. Lhendrup, P. Chhophyel (2016) Kurtöp-English-Dzongkha dictionary (draft), page 56