[lojban] Re: panda article

[Adam COOPER <lojban-out@lojban.org>]

This is now O.T., but

"Tibet" < Ar. "Tabbatus" < Chin. (Tang dyn.) "Tubo"

and yes the "bo" is thought to be related to "Bod"


On Mon, 7 Feb 2005 14:04:51 -0500, Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.hn.org> wrote:
> On Monday 07 February 2005 11:00, Adam COOPER wrote:
> > This may be nitpicky, but I don't think you can get away with {la
> > tiBET.} You could say {la'o ly. tiBET ly.} because I think the word
> > first appears in Latin by Jesuit missionaries (it's apparently
> > ultimately from an ancient Chinese word for the country). Or the
> > Chinese {la'o jy. cidzan jy.} The native name is pronounced "Po" or
> > "Puh" or something, with a silent "d". So maybe {la pyd.}
> 
> According to Wikipedia, it's trasliterated "Bod" and pronounced "Pö". The
> article doesn't say where "Tibet" comes from, but maybe "bet" is related to
> "bod". I don't know how to pronounce Tibetan, but {pyd} sounds reasonable.
> 
> phma
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