ʁmbɣi

Japhug

FWOTD – 28 October 2025

Etymology

Cognate with Tangut 𗾔 (*be², “sun”), Stau ɣbə (“sun”), Khroskyabs ʁbɣi⁵³.[1][2][3]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʁᵐbɣi/

Noun

ʁmbɣi

  1. (Kamnyu) sun
    Synonym: tɤŋe
    • 2014 May 10, Tshendzin, Histoire : sanpian yumao, →DOI; quoted in Guillaume Jacques, A grammar of Japhug‎[1], Berlin: Language Science Press, 2021, →ISBN, page 648:
      tɯrdoʁ nɯnɯ, ɕɤrpɕoʁ koɕe, tɯrdoʁ nɯnɯ ʁmbɣi ɯsɤɕqʰlɤt nɯtɕu ɲɤɕqʰlɤt.
      One [of the feathers] went to the east, another one disappeared in the direction where the sun sets.
    • 2016 August 3, Guillaume Jacques, Dictionnaire Japhug-chinois-français, Version 1.1‎[2], page 220:
      ʁmbɣi pɣɤlpɣɤl ʑo ɲɤɬoʁ
      The sun rose, shining brightly

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Jacques, Guillaume (2014), Esquisse de phonologie et de morphologie historique du tangoute, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 110
  2. ^ Xun Gong (2020), “Uvulars and uvularization in Tangut phonology”, in Language and Linguistics, volume 21, number 2, →DOI, page 199
  3. ^ 白井聡子 [Satoko Shirai] (2018), “ナ＝チァン諸語の「太陽」に関する一考察 [On “sun” in Na-Qiangic languages]”, in 千葉大学 ユーラシア言語文化論集 (in Japanese), page 34
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