འོང
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Tibetan[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-wa-ŋ. Related to ཡོང (yong, “to come”), which is an obvious alternative form of the same.
Pronunciation[edit]
- Old Tibetan: /*ɣoŋ/
- Lhasa: /ʔoŋ˩˧˨/
- Old Tibetan:
- Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan pinyin: ongw
- (Lhasa) IPA(key): /ʔoŋ˩˧˨/
Verb[edit]
འོང • ('ong) (nominal form འོང་བ)
- (intransitive) to come, to approach
- (intransitive) to arise, to come about
- (intransitive) to be suitable, to be practicable
- (Central Tibetan, auxiliary) future auxiliary particle