པོ

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Kurtöp[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-pu. Cognates include Dzongkha སྤུ (spu) and Mandarin ().

Noun[edit]

པོ (po)

  1. fur

Etymology 2[edit]

Related to Dzongkha སྦུམ (sbum).

Noun[edit]

པོ (po)

  1. snake

References[edit]

  • Gwendolyn Hyslop (2011) A Grammar of Kurtöp (PhD thesis)[1], page 106
  • G. Hyslop, K. Tshering, K. Lhendrup, P. Chhophyel (2016) Kurtöp-English-Dzongkha dictionary (draft), page 133