ཏྲོང

Kurtöp

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ʈ(r)óŋ]

Etymology 1

Kurtöp cardinal numbers
༡༠༠༠
    Cardinal : ཏྲོང (trong)

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-tawŋ. Cognates include Tibetan སྟོང (stong) and Dzongkha སྟོང (stong).

Numeral

ཏྲོང (trong)

  1. thousand

Etymology 2

Likely related to Tibetan གྲོང (grong).

Noun

ཏྲོང (trong)

  1. village

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Tibetan བཀྲོང (bkrong).

Verb

ཏྲོང (trong)

  1. (honorific, transitive) to kill
Synonyms

References

  • G. Hyslop, K. Tshering, K. Lhendrup, P. Chhophyel (2016) Kurtöp-English-Dzongkha dictionary (draft), page 68
  • Gwendolyn Hyslop (2017) A grammar of Kurtöp, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 261; 333
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