ལྷོ

Dzongkha

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *khlaŋ (“south, lower, down”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɬo˥/

Noun

ལྷོ (lho)

south

Kurtöp

Etymology

Related to Dzongkha ལྷོ (lho) and Tibetan ལྷོ (lho).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [l̥ó]

Noun

ལྷོ (lho)

south

References

G. Hyslop, K. Tshering, K. Lhendrup, P. Chhophyel (2016) Kurtöp-English-Dzongkha dictionary (draft), page 234
Gwendolyn Hyslop (2017) A grammar of Kurtöp, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 149

Tibetan

Pronunciation

Old Tibetan: /*l̥o/
Lhasa: /ɬo˥˥/
Batang: /ɬu˥˧/
Dêgê: /ɬo˥˧/
Zêkog: /ɬo/
Bla-Brang: /ɬo/

Old Tibetan:
- IPA^(key): /*l̥o/ (reconstructed)
Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan pinyin: lho^f
- (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /ɬo˥˥/
Khams
- (Batang) IPA^(key): /ɬu˥˧/
- (Dêgê) IPA^(key): /ɬo˥˧/
Amdo
- (Zêkog) IPA^(key): /ɬo/
- (Bla-Brang) IPA^(key): /ɬo/

Noun

ལྷོ • (lho)

south

See also

compass points: ^[edit]

ནུབ་བྱང (nub byang)	བྱང (byang)	བྱང་ཤར (byang shar)
ནུབ (nub)		ཤར (shar)
ལྷོ་ནུབ (lho nub)	ལྷོ (lho)	ཤར་ལྷོ (shar lho)