"ཁྱི" meaning in Tibetan

See ཁྱི in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /*kʰʲi/, /cʰi˥˥/ [Lhasa] Forms: khyi [romanization]
Etymology: From Proto-Bodish *kʰʷi, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *d-kʷəj-n. Cognate with Chinese 犬 (OC *kʰʷeːnʔ). Etymology templates: {{inh|bo|sit-bdi-pro|*kʰʷi}} Proto-Bodish *kʰʷi, {{der|bo|sit-pro|*d-kʷəj-n}} Proto-Sino-Tibetan *d-kʷəj-n, {{cog|zh|-}} Chinese, {{och-l|犬}} 犬 (OC *kʰʷeːnʔ) Head templates: {{head|bo|noun}} ཁྱི • (khyi)
  1. dog Derived forms: ཁྱི་ཕྲུག (khyi phrug) (english: puppy), དོ་ཁྱི (do khyi), འདོག་ཁྱི ('dog khyi) (english: guard dog), འདོགས་ཁྱི (english: mastif; 'dogs khyi), འབྲོག་ཁྱི ('brog khyi) (english: Tibetan mastiff)
    Sense id: en-ཁྱི-bo-noun-zWNX792W Categories (other): Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Tibetan entries with incorrect language header, Animals, Astrology, Mammals
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        "1": "bo",
        "2": "sit-bdi-pro",
        "3": "*kʰʷi"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Bodish *kʰʷi",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "bo",
        "2": "sit-pro",
        "3": "*d-kʷəj-n"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Sino-Tibetan *d-kʷəj-n",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "zh",
        "2": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "Chinese",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "犬"
      },
      "expansion": "犬 (OC *kʰʷeːnʔ)",
      "name": "och-l"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Proto-Bodish *kʰʷi, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *d-kʷəj-n. Cognate with Chinese 犬 (OC *kʰʷeːnʔ).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "khyi",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "bo",
        "2": "noun"
      },
      "expansion": "ཁྱི • (khyi)",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Tibetan",
  "lang_code": "bo",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Tibetan entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "bo",
          "name": "Animals",
          "orig": "bo:Animals",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "bo",
          "name": "Astrology",
          "orig": "bo:Astrology",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "bo",
          "name": "Mammals",
          "orig": "bo:Mammals",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "derived": [
        {
          "english": "puppy",
          "roman": "khyi phrug",
          "word": "ཁྱི་ཕྲུག"
        },
        {
          "roman": "do khyi",
          "word": "དོ་ཁྱི"
        },
        {
          "english": "guard dog",
          "roman": "'dog khyi",
          "word": "འདོག་ཁྱི"
        },
        {
          "english": "mastif; 'dogs khyi",
          "word": "འདོགས་ཁྱི"
        },
        {
          "english": "Tibetan mastiff",
          "roman": "'brog khyi",
          "word": "འབྲོག་ཁྱི"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "dog"
      ],
      "id": "en-ཁྱི-bo-noun-zWNX792W",
      "links": [
        [
          "dog",
          "dog"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "other": "/*kʰʲi/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/*kʰʲi/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/cʰi˥˥/",
      "tags": [
        "Lhasa"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "ཁྱི"
}
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  "derived": [
    {
      "english": "puppy",
      "roman": "khyi phrug",
      "word": "ཁྱི་ཕྲུག"
    },
    {
      "roman": "do khyi",
      "word": "དོ་ཁྱི"
    },
    {
      "english": "guard dog",
      "roman": "'dog khyi",
      "word": "འདོག་ཁྱི"
    },
    {
      "english": "mastif; 'dogs khyi",
      "word": "འདོགས་ཁྱི"
    },
    {
      "english": "Tibetan mastiff",
      "roman": "'brog khyi",
      "word": "འབྲོག་ཁྱི"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "bo",
        "2": "sit-bdi-pro",
        "3": "*kʰʷi"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Bodish *kʰʷi",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "bo",
        "2": "sit-pro",
        "3": "*d-kʷəj-n"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Sino-Tibetan *d-kʷəj-n",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "zh",
        "2": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "Chinese",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "犬"
      },
      "expansion": "犬 (OC *kʰʷeːnʔ)",
      "name": "och-l"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Proto-Bodish *kʰʷi, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *d-kʷəj-n. Cognate with Chinese 犬 (OC *kʰʷeːnʔ).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "khyi",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "bo",
        "2": "noun"
      },
      "expansion": "ཁྱི • (khyi)",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Tibetan",
  "lang_code": "bo",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Tibetan entries with incorrect language header",
        "Tibetan lemmas",
        "Tibetan nouns",
        "Tibetan terms derived from Proto-Bodish",
        "Tibetan terms derived from Proto-Sino-Tibetan",
        "Tibetan terms inherited from Proto-Bodish",
        "Tibetan terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "bo:Animals",
        "bo:Astrology",
        "bo:Mammals"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "dog"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "dog",
          "dog"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "other": "/*kʰʲi/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/*kʰʲi/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/cʰi˥˥/",
      "tags": [
        "Lhasa"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "ཁྱི"
}

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