སེམ་ཅན

Kurtöp

Etymology

From སེམ (sem, “mind”) +‎ ཅན (-can, “-ful”). Akin to Dzongkha སེམས་ཅན (sems can) and Tibetan སེམས་ཅན (sems can)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [sém.c͡ɕɐn]

Noun

སེམ་ཅན (semcan)

  1. (sentient) animal

References

  • G. Hyslop; K. Tshering; K. Lhendrup; P. Chhophyel (2016), Kurtöp-English-Dzongkha dictionary (draft), page 226
  • Gwendolyn Hyslop (2017), A grammar of Kurtöp, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 412
  • Kuenga Lhendup (2025), A Phonetic and Phonological reconstruction of Proto-Kurtöp‎[1], University of Syndey (PhD thesis), page 131
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