ཡོང
Tibetan
Etymology
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *waŋ (“to come (out); to enter”). Cognate with Burmese ဝင် (wang, “to come in; to enter”), Chinese 往 (OC *ɢʷaŋ, “to go”). Related to འོང ('ong, “to come”).
Pronunciation
- Old Tibetan: /*joŋ/
- Lhasa: /joŋ˩˨/
- Old Tibetan:
- IPA(key): /*joŋ/ (reconstructed)
- Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan pinyin: yongv
- (Lhasa) IPA(key): /joŋ˩˨/
Verb
| Plain | ཡོང (yong) |
|---|---|
| Honorific | ཕེབས (phebs) |
| High Honorific | བཅར (bcar) |
ཡོང • (yong) (nominal form ཡོང་བ)
- (intransitive) to come, to arrive
- (intransitive) to arise, to occur
- (intransitive) to be able to, can
Conjugation
| present | ཡོང (yong) |
|---|---|
| future | ཡོང (yong) |
| past | ཡོང (yong) |
| imperative | ཡོང (yong) |