སྟོང

See also: སེང, སེངྒེ, and སྙིང

Balti

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-toŋ (“thousand”). Cognate to Tibetan སྟོང (stong)

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /stoŋ/, [stoŋ]

Numeral

སྟོང (stong)

thousand

References

Sprigg, R.K. (2002) Balti-English/English-Balti Dictionary, New York: Routledge

Tibetan

**Tibetan numbers ^(edit)**
← 1	← 100	༡༠༠༠ 1,000	10,000 →	1,000,000 (10⁶) →
Cardinal: སྟོང (stong)

Etymology 1

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-toŋ (“thousand”). Cognate to Burmese ထောင် (htaung).

Pronunciation

Old Tibetan: /*stoŋ/
Lhasa: /toŋ˥˥/
Batang: /tũ˥˥/
Dêgê: /tuŋ˥˥/
Zêkog: /rtoŋ/
Bla-Brang: /htoŋ/

Old Tibetan:
- IPA^(key): /*stoŋ/ (reconstructed)
Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan pinyin: dong^f
- (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /toŋ˥˥/
Khams
- (Batang) IPA^(key): /tũ˥˥/
- (Dêgê) IPA^(key): /tuŋ˥˥/
Amdo
- (Zêkog) IPA^(key): /rtoŋ/
- (Bla-Brang) IPA^(key): /htoŋ/

Numeral

སྟོང • (stong)

thousand

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

Old Tibetan: /*stoŋ/
Lhasa: /toŋ˥˨/

Old Tibetan:
- IPA^(key): /*stoŋ/ (reconstructed)
Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan pinyin: dong^h
- (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /toŋ˥˨/

Verb

སྟོང • (stong) (nominal form སྟོང་བ)

(intransitive) to make empty, to be empty, to become waste or desolate

Conjugation

present	སྟོང (stong) སྟོངས (stongs)
future	སྟོང (stong) བསྟང (bstang)
past	སྟོངས (stongs) བསྟངས (bstangs)
imperative	སྟོངས (stongs)