ཇིན

Kurtöp

Etymology

From Proto-Bodish *'lit, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-lij. Cognates include Tibetan ལྗིད (ljid) and Dzongkha ལྗིད (ljid).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ɟ͡ʑìn]

Noun

ཇིན (jin)

  1. weight

References

  • Gwendolyn Hyslop (2011) A Grammar of Kurtöp (PhD thesis)[1], page 117
  • G. Hyslop, K. Tshering, K. Lhendrup, P. Chhophyel (2016) Kurtöp-English-Dzongkha dictionary (draft), page 56