ཁན
Kurtöp
Etymology 1
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Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [kʰɐ́n]
Verb
ཁན (khan)
Conjugation
| 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)
- 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