སྐྱོང

Tibetan

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

Old Tibetan: /*skʲoŋ/
Lhasa: /koŋ˥˨/

Old Tibetan:
- IPA^(key): /*skʲoŋ/ (reconstructed)
Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan pinyin: gong^h
- (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /koŋ˥˨/

Verb

སྐྱོང • (skyong) (nominal form སྐྱོང་བ)

(transitive) to keep, to maintain, to sustain
(transitive) to guard, to nurture
(transitive) to rule, to govern

Conjugation

present	སྐྱོང (skyong)
future	བསྐྱང (bskyang)
past	བསྐྱངས (bskyangs) བསྐྱོངས (bskyongs)
imperative	སྐྱོངས (skyongs) སྐྱོང (skyong)

Etymology 2

Verb

སྐྱོང • (skyong) (nominal form སྐྱོང་བ)

(intransitive) to go on a long road

Conjugation

present	སྐྱོང (skyong)
future	སྐྱོང (skyong)
past	སྐྱོང (skyong)