བོད

See also: པོད, བདེ, and པད

Dzongkha

Etymology

From Classical Tibetan བོད (bod, “Tibet”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /pʰøː˩/

Proper noun

བོད (bod)

Tibet (a geographic region in Central Asia, the homeland of the Tibetan people)
Tibet (an autonomous region of China)

Kurtöp

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [bòt̪]

Pronoun

བོད (bot)

they

Declension

Kurtöp personal pronouns
		1^st person		2^nd person	3^rd person
		exclusive	inclusive	2^nd person	3^rd person
singular	absolutive	ངད (ngat)		ཝིད (wit)	ཁིད (khit)
	ergative	ངའི (ngai)		ཝཱི (wî)	ཁཱི (khî)
	genitive	ང་པྱི (ngaci)		ཝི་པྱི (wici)	ཁི་པྱི (khici)
plural	absolutive	ནེད (net)	ནེར (ner)	ནིན (nin)	བོད (bot)
	ergative	ནེའི (nei)	ནེ་རི (neri)	ནི་ངི (ningi)	བོའི (boi)
	genitive	ནེ་པྱི (neci)	ནེ་རི (neri)	ནིན་ཏི (ninti) ནིན་པྱི (ninci)	བོ་པྱི (boci)

^*) The demonstrative pronoun ཚཱོ (tshô) can be used as a polite second-person pronoun.

References

Gwendolyn Hyslop (2017) A grammar of Kurtöp, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 156

Tibetan

Etymology

According to Bialek, originally the name of a people inhabiting modern Nyêmo County.^[1] Possibly related to བོན (bon, “to express, to mutter, etc.”).^[2]

Pronunciation

Old Tibetan: /*bot/
Lhasa: /pʰøː˩˧˨/

Old Tibetan:
- IPA^(key): /*bot/ (reconstructed)
Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan pinyin: poe^w
- (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /pʰøː˩˧˨/

Proper noun

བོད • (bod)

Tibet (a geographic region in Central Asia, the homeland of the Tibetan people)
Tibet (an autonomous region of China)

Derived terms

བོད་སྐད (bod skad)
བོད་ཆས (bod chas)
བོད་ཆེན་པོ (bod chen po)
བོད་ཇ (bod ja)
བོད་ལྗོངས (bod ljongs)
བོད་པ (bod pa)
བོད་སྨན (bod sman)
བོད་ཡིག (bod yig)
བོད་ཡུལ (bod yul)
བོད་རང་སྐྱོང་ལྗོངས (bod rang skyong ljongs)
བོད་རིགས (bod rigs)

Descendants

Dzongkha: བོད (bod)
→? Ancient Greek: Βαι̃ται (Baĩtai), Βα̃ται (Bãtai), Βαεται (Baetai)^[1]
- → Latin: Baetae
→⇒? Middle Chinese: 發羌 (MC pjot khjang); 附國 (MC bjuH kwok)^[1]
→? Prakrit: *𑀪𑁄𑀝𑁆𑀝 (*bhŏṭṭa), *𑀪𑁄𑀝 (*bhoṭa)^[1]
- Assamese: ভোট (bhüt)
- Bengali: ভোট (bhōṭ)
- Hindi: भोट (bhoṭ)
- Nepali: भोट (bhoṭ)
- Odia: ଭୋଟ (bhoṭa)
- → Sanskrit: भौट्ट (bhauṭṭa), भोट (bhoṭa)
- ⇒ Prakrit: 𑀪𑁄𑀝𑁆𑀝𑀁𑀢 (bhŏṭṭaṃta) (see there for further descendants)

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 ^1.3 Joanna Bialek (October 2021) “Naming the empire: from Bod to Tibet—A philologico-historical study on the origin of the polity”, in Revue d’Etudes Tibétaines‎^[1], volume 61, Centre de recherche sur les civilisations d'Asie orientale, pages 339-402
^ Marcelle Lalou (1953) “Tibétain ancien Bod/Bon”, in Journal Asiatique, volume 241, pages 275–276

[Bialek-1] 1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 ^1.3 Joanna Bialek (October 2021) “Naming the empire: from Bod to Tibet—A philologico-historical study on the origin of the polity”, in Revue d’Etudes Tibétaines‎^[1], volume 61, Centre de recherche sur les civilisations d'Asie orientale, pages 339-402

[2] Marcelle Lalou (1953) “Tibétain ancien Bod/Bon”, in Journal Asiatique, volume 241, pages 275–276

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