ེའུ

See also: and འི

Tibetan

Etymology

Suffix འུ ('u) + ablaut when attached to a/o vowel stems. The former is from lenition of the བུ (bu, child, son; diminutive suffix).

Suffix

ེའུ (e'u)

  1. diminutive suffix

Derived terms

  • མཐེའུ (mthe'u, little finger) - མཐེབ (mtheb, thumb)
  • མཚེའུ (mtshe'u, pond) - མཚོ (mtsho, lake)
  • རྫེའུ (rdze'u, pipkin) - རྫ (rdza, earthenware)
  • ཟེའུ (ze'u, anther, small bowl) - ཟོ་བ (zo ba, measuring vessel, bowl)
  • རེའུ (re'u, baby goat) - (ra, goat)
  • ཉེའུ (nye'u, small fish) - (nya, fish)
  • སྒེའུ (sge'u, ginger) - སྒ (sga, ginger)
  • སྒེའུ (sge'u, small door) - སྒོ (sgo, door)
  • སྤྲེའུ (spre'u, monkey) - སྤྲེལ (sprel, monkey)
  • རྡེའུ (rde'u, pebble) - རྡོ (rdo, stone)
  • བེའུ (be'u, calf) - (ba, cow)
  • བྱེའུ (bye'u, baby bird) - བྱ (bya, bird)
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