ཁན

Kurtöp

Etymology 1

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Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [kʰɐ́n]

Verb

ཁན (khan)

  1. (transitive) to know the principles of
  2. (transitive + verbal noun) to know how to
Conjugation
Conjugation of ཁན (khan)
affirmative negative I negative II
unmarked ཁན (khan) མ́་ཁན ('makhan) མེ́་ཁན ('mekhan)
prospective ཁན་ཀི་ན (khankina) མ́་ཁན་ཀི་ན ('makhankina) མེ́་ཁན་ཀི་ན ('mekhankina)
perfective I ཁན་པ་ར (khanpara) མ́་ཁན་པ་ར ('makhanpara) མེ́་ཁན་པ་ར ('mekhanpara)
II ཁན་མུ (khanmu)
III ཁན་ན (khanna) མ́་ཁན་ན ('makhanna) མེ́་ཁན་ན ('mekhanna)
IV ཁན་ཤང (khanshang) མ́་ཁན་ཤང ('makhanshang) མེ́་ཁན་ཤང ('mekhanshang)
V ཁན་པ་ལ (khanpala) མ́་ཁན་པ་ལ ('makhanpala) མེ́་ཁན་པ་ལ ('mekhanpala)
mirative ཁན་ན (khanna) མ́་ཁན་ན ('makhanna) མེ́་ཁན་ན ('mekhanna)
imperfective egophoric ཁན་ཏ་ཀི (khantaki) མ́་ཁན་ཏ་ཀི ('makhantaki) མེ́་ཁན་ཏ་ཀི ('mekhantaki)
non-egophoric ཁན་ཏ (khanta) མ́་ཁན་ཏ ('makhanta) མེ́་ཁན་ཏ ('mekhanta)
infinitive ཁན་དོ (khando)

Etymology 2

A grammaticalised form of ཁན (khan, to know how to). Cognate with Tibetan མཁན (mkhan)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [-kʰɐn]

Suffix

ཁན (-khan)

  1. Used to form agent nouns from imperfect verbs.
Derived terms
Kurtöp terms suffixed with ཁན

References

  • G. Hyslop; K. Tshering; K. Lhendrup; P. Chhophyel (2016), Kurtöp-English-Dzongkha dictionary (draft), page 18
  • Gwendolyn Hyslop (2017), A grammar of Kurtöp, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 95