ཕག
See also: ཕྱག
Kurtöp
Etymology
From Proto-Bodish *pʰak, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *pʷak. Cognates include Dzongkha ཕགཔ (phgap) and Tibetan ཕག (phag).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [pʰɐ́k], [pʰɐ́ː]
Noun
ཕག (phak)
Synonyms
- ཕག་པ (phakpa)
Derived terms
- རི་ཕག (riphak)
References
- G. Hyslop; K. Tshering; K. Lhendrup; P. Chhophyel (2016), Kurtöp-English-Dzongkha dictionary (draft), page 135
- Gwendolyn Hyslop (2017), A grammar of Kurtöp, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 31
- Kuenga Lhendup (2025), A Phonetic and Phonological reconstruction of Proto-Kurtöp[1], University of Syndey (PhD thesis), page 131
Tibetan
Etymology
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *pʷak (“pig”).
Pronunciation
- Old Tibetan: /*pʰak/
- Lhasa: /pʰa˥˨/
- Old Tibetan:
- IPA(key): /*pʰak/ (reconstructed)
- Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan pinyin: pah
- (Lhasa) IPA(key): /pʰa˥˨/
Noun
ཕག • (phag)
Coordinate terms
Derived terms
- ཕག་པ (phag pa, “pig”)