ཡོད

Dzongkha

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /jøː˩/

Verb

ཡོད (yod)

to be (attributive, indirect (known) evidential)
to have

Kurtöp

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *lut. Cognates include Dzongkha ལུད (lud) and Tibetan ལུད (lud).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [jòt̪]

Noun

ཡོད (yot)

manure, fertiliser

References

G. Hyslop, K. Tshering, K. Lhendrup, P. Chhophyel (2016) Kurtöp-English-Dzongkha dictionary (draft), page 196
Gwendolyn Hyslop (2017) A grammar of Kurtöp, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 84

Tibetan

Etymology

Possibly cognate with Chinese 有 (OC *ɢʷɯʔ).

Pronunciation

Old Tibetan: /*jot/
Lhasa: /jøː˩˧˨/

Old Tibetan:
- IPA^(key): /*jot/ (reconstructed)
Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan pinyin: yoe^w
- (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /jøː˩˧˨/

Verb

ཡོད • (yod) (nominal form ཡོད་པ)

(intransitive) to be, to exist, to have

Conjugation

present	ཡོད (yod)
future	ཡོད (yod)
past	ཡོད (yod)
imperative	ཡོད (yod)