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Balti
Etymology
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-toŋ (“thousand”). Cognate to Tibetan སྟོང (stong)
Pronunciation
Numeral
སྟོང (stong)
- thousand
References
- Sprigg, R.K. (2002) Balti-English/English-Balti Dictionary, New York: Routledge
Tibetan
Etymology 1
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-toŋ (“thousand”).
Pronunciation
Numeral
སྟོང • (stong)
- thousand
Etymology 2
Pronunciation
Verb
སྟོང • (stong) (nominal form སྟོང་བ)
- (intransitive) to make empty, to be empty, to become waste or desolate
Conjugation
Conjugation of སྟོང
Tense/Mood
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Form
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Wylie
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Present
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སྟོང སྟོངས |
stong stongs
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Future
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སྟོང བསྟང |
stong bstang
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Past
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སྟོངས བསྟངས |
stongs bstangs
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Imperative
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སྟོངས |
stongs
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