བྱི་ལ
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Ladakhi
Noun
བྱི་ལ (byi la)
Tibetan
Etymology
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
Noun
བྱི་ལ • (byi la)
Hyponyms
- བྱི་པོ (byi po, “tom cat”)
References
- ^ Jäschke, Heinrich August (1881) A Tibetan-English dictionary, Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, page 376
- ^ Schuessler, Axel (2007) ABC Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, page 412