ཐུག

Kurtöp

Etymology

Borrowed from Tibetan ཐུགས (thugs).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [t̪ʰúk], [t̪ʰúː]

Noun

ཐུག (thuk)

(honorific) heart

Synonyms

(low register) ནེ́ང ('neng)

References

G. Hyslop, K. Tshering, K. Lhendrup, P. Chhophyel (2016) Kurtöp-English-Dzongkha dictionary (draft), page 90
Gwendolyn Hyslop (2017) A grammar of Kurtöp, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 89

Tibetan

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *tuk ~ (t/d)wa(k/ŋ) (“to meet”). Related to གཏུག (gtug, “to reach; to meet with”).

Pronunciation

Old Tibetan: /*tʰuk/
Lhasa: /tʰu˥˨/
Dêgê: /tʰuʔ˥˧/
Zêkog: /tʰək/
Bla-Brang: /tʰək/

Old Tibetan:
- IPA^(key): /*tʰuk/ (reconstructed)
Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan pinyin: tu^h
- (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /tʰu˥˨/
Khams
- (Dêgê) IPA^(key): /tʰuʔ˥˧/
Amdo
- (Zêkog) IPA^(key): /tʰək/
- (Bla-Brang) IPA^(key): /tʰək/

Verb

ཐུག • (thug) (nominal form ཐུག་པ)

(intransitive) to reach, to arrive at, to come to
(intransitive) to interview, to encounter, to meet

Conjugation

present	ཐུག (thug) འཐུག ('thug)
future	ཐུག (thug)
past	ཐུག (thug)
imperative	ཐུག (thug)

See also

མཇལ (mjal)

Verb

ཐུག • (thug) (nominal form ཐུག་པ)

(transitive, colloquial) to touch, to hit, to strike

Conjugation

present	ཐུག (thug)
future	ཐུག (thug)
past	ཐུག (thug)
imperative	ཐུག (thug)