དུག

See also: དགུ

Sherpa

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *duk ~ tuk.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /t̪úk/^[1]

Noun

དུག (thuk)

poison

References

^ Graves, Thomas (2007) The phonetics and phonology of the Sherpa language

Sherpa Dictionary by Nicolas Tournadre &al., Kathmandu 2009

Tibetan

Etymology

From Proto-Bodish *duk, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *duk ~ tuk.

Pronunciation

Old Tibetan: /*duk/
Lhasa: /tʰu˩˧˨/
Batang: /tuʔ˨˧˩/
Dêgê: /tuʔ˧˩/
Zêkog: /tuk/
Bla-Brang: /tək/

Old Tibetan:
- IPA^(key): /*duk/ (reconstructed)
Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan pinyin: tu^w
- (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /tʰu˩˧˨/
Khams
- (Batang) IPA^(key): /tuʔ˨˧˩/
- (Dêgê) IPA^(key): /tuʔ˧˩/
Amdo
- (Zêkog) IPA^(key): /tuk/
- (Bla-Brang) IPA^(key): /tək/

Noun

དུག • (dug)

poison, toxin

Derived terms

དུག་སྦྲང (dug sbrang, “mosquito”)
ལ་དུག (la dug, “altitude sickness”)
སྦྲུལ་སོའི་དུག་ཆུ (sbrul so'i dug chu, “venom”)