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Tibetan
Etymology
From earlier མེན་ཏོག (men tog). The reason this word lost the -n in Written Tibetan is unknown.
The men in the Old Tibetan form may be compared with འཕྲ་མེན ('phra men, “gilded silver”), and the tog part is from ཐོག (thog, “roof < *tip, end?”) (Hill, 2007).
Pronunciation
Noun
མེ་ཏོག • (me tog)
- flower, blossom
- (dialectal) smallpox
Descendants