ཞི་མི

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Tibetan

Etymology

Cognate with ཞིམ་བུ (zhim bu) and ཞུམ་བུ (zhum bu), all possibly from earlier *ryi-mi.[1] If true, then perhaps of Sino-Tibetan origin and cognate with Old Chinese 狸 (OC *rɯ)[1] (see there for further etymology).

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Noun

ཞི་མི • (zhi mi)

  1. cat

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Schuessler, Axel (2007) ABC Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, pages 347-348

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