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Tibetan

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Etymology 1

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From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *b-rəj (to draw, to mark). Related to རི་མོ (ri mo, drawing).

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འབྲི ('bri) (nominal form འབྲི་བ)

  1. (transitive) to write, to draw, to note down
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Etymology 2

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Resultative of འཕྲི ('phri).

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འབྲི ('bri) (nominal form འབྲི་བ)

  1. (intransitive) to diminish, to grow less, to go down, to decline, to wane
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Etymology 3

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Either related to or borrowed into Old Chinese as (OC *rə) > .[1]

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འབྲི ('bri)

  1. female yak
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References

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  1. ^ Schuessler, Axel (2007). ABC Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. p. 348