བུད་མེད
Tibetan
Etymology
Schuessler (2007) compares it to Burmese မ (ma., “sister”) (whence အစ်မ (acma., “elder sister”), ညီမ (nyima., “younger sister”)), Miju ku-mai- (“woman”), Chinese 妹 (mèi, “younger sister”), and also Mizo hmei (“concubine”) (> Mizo hmei-chhia (“woman; wife”)).
Pronunciation
- Old Tibetan: /*but.met/
- Lhasa: /pʰyː˩˧˨.meː˥˨/
- Old Tibetan:
- IPA(key): /*but.met/ (reconstructed)
- Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan pinyin: puew-meeh
- (Lhasa) IPA(key): /pʰyː˩˧˨.meː˥˨/
Noun
བུད་མེད • (bud med)
References
- “བུད་མེད” in The Tibetan Living Dictionary, Mandala Collections, 2021.