སྲིང་མོ

Tibetan

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *sriŋ (“sister”), related by Coblin (1986) to Proto-Sino-Tibetan *sreŋ (“to live; to be alive; to give birth; raw; green”), and the suffix མོ (mo, “female”).

Cognate with Kinnauri riŋz, Jangshung śiŋ, Chinese 甥 (OC *sreŋ, “sister's son or daughter”) and 姓 (OC *sleŋs, “family name”).

Pronunciation

Old Tibetan: /*sriŋ.mo/
Batang: /sĩ⁵⁵ mo⁵³/
Dêgê: /sin⁵⁵ mo⁵³/
Zêkog: /ʂaŋ mo/
Bla-Brang: /ʂaŋ mo/
Arik: /ʂaŋ mo/

Old Tibetan:
- IPA^(key): /*sriŋ.mo/ (reconstructed)
Khams
- (Batang) IPA^(key): /sĩ⁵⁵ mo⁵³/
- (Dêgê) IPA^(key): /sin⁵⁵ mo⁵³/
Amdo
- (Zêkog) IPA^(key): /ʂaŋ mo/
- (Bla-Brang) IPA^(key): /ʂaŋ mo/
- (Arik) IPA^(key): /ʂaŋ mo/

Noun

སྲིང་མོ • (sring mo)

(some Khams varieties) sister of a man
Hypernyms: (Ü, Tsang) ཨ་ཆེ (a che), གཅེན་མོ (gcen mo)
(chiefly Amdo) younger sister of a man
Hypernym: (Ü, Tsang) འོག་མ ('og ma)

References

“སྲིང་མོ” in The Tibetan Living Dictionary, Mandala Collections, 2021.