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Kurtöp
Etymology
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *g-sum. Cognates include Dzongkha གསུམ (gsum) and Tibetan གསུམ (gsum).
Pronunciation
Numeral
སུམ (sum)
- three
Noun
སུམ (sum) (genitive-ergative སུམ་གི)
- triple
References
- G. Hyslop, K. Tshering, K. Lhendrup, P. Chhophyel (2016) Kurtöp-English-Dzongkha dictionary (draft), page 223
- Gwendolyn Hyslop (2017) A grammar of Kurtöp, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 134