ཤིག
Dzongkha
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /-ɕ/ (non-syllabic)
Adverb
ཤིག (shig)
- (suffixed to verbs) used to form urgent imperatives or unambiguous imperatives
Sherpa
Etymology
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *srik.
Noun
ཤིག (shig)
References
- Sherpa Dictionary by Nicolas Tournadre &al., Kathmandu 2009
Tibetan
Etymology 1
From Proto-Bodish *sik, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *srik.
Pronunciation
- Old Tibetan: /*ɕik/
- Lhasa: /ɕi(k̚)ˀ˥˨/
- Batang: /xiʔ⁵³/
- Dêgê: /xʰiʔ⁵³/
- Zêkog: /ɕək/, /ɕʰəg/
- Bla-Brang: /ɕək/
- Old Tibetan:
- IPA(key): /*ɕik/ (reconstructed)
- Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan pinyin: xigh
- (Lhasa) IPA(key): /ɕi(k̚)ˀ˥˨/
- Khams
- Amdo
Noun
ཤིག • (shig)
Derived terms
- འདྲེ་ཤིག ('dre shig, “bedbug”)
Related terms
- སྲོ་མ (sro ma, “nit, louse egg”)
Etymology 2
Pronunciation
- Old Tibetan: /*ɕik/
- Lhasa: /ɕi(k̚)ˀˑ/, /ɕ/
- Old Tibetan:
- IPA(key): /*ɕik/ (reconstructed)
- Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan pinyin: xig,ɕ
- (Lhasa) IPA(key): /ɕi(k̚)ˀˑ/, /ɕ/
Particle
ཤིག • (shig)
Usage notes
The modern imperative marker is a low register form, but can be used with both honorific and non-honorific forms. It is generally pronounced as a non-syllabic IPA(key): /-ɕ/ appended onto the imperative form of the verb.[1]
See also
References
- “ཤིག” in The Tibetan Living Dictionary, Mandala Collections, 2021.
- Goldstein, Melvyn; Narkyid, Ngawangthondup (1984) English-Tibetan Dictionary of Modern Tibetan. University of California Press. Page 257. →ISBN