བོད

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See also: པོད, བདེ, and པད

Dzongkha

Etymology

From Classical Tibetan བོད (bod, Tibet).

Pronunciation

Proper noun

བོད (bod)

  1. Tibet

Kurtöp

Pronunciation

Pronoun

བོད (bot)

  1. they

Declension

Kurtöp personal pronouns
1st person 2nd person 3rd person
exclusive inclusive
singular absolutive ངད (ngat) ཝིད (wit) ཁིད (khit)
ergative ངའི (ngai) ཝཱི () ཁཱི (khî)
genitive ང་པྱི (ngaci) ཝི་པྱི (wici) ཁི་པྱི (khici)
plural absolutive ནེད (net) ནེར (ner) ནིན (nin) བོད (bot)
ergative ནེའི (nei) ནེ་རི (neri) ནི་ངི (ningi) བོའི (boi)
genitive ནེ་པྱི (neci) ནེ་རི (neri) ནིན་ཏི (ninti)
ནིན་པྱི (ninci)
བོ་པྱི (boci)

*) The demonstrative pronoun ཚཱོ (tshô) can be used as a polite second-person pronoun.

References

  • Gwendolyn Hyslop (2017) A grammar of Kurtöp, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 156

Tibetan

Tibetan Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia bo

Etymology

According to Bialek, originally the name of a people inhabiting modern Nyêmo County.[1] Possibly related to བོན (bon, to express, to mutter, etc.).[2]

Pronunciation


Proper noun

བོད (bod)

  1. Tibet

Derived terms

Descendants

See also

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Joanna Bialek (2021 October) “Naming the empire: from Bod to Tibet—A philologico-historical study on the origin of the polity”, in Revue d’Etudes Tibétaines, volume 61, Centre de recherche sur les civilisations d'Asie orientale, pages 339-402
  2. ^ Marcelle Lalou (1953) “Tibétain ancien Bod/Bon”, in Journal Asiatique, volume 241, pages 275–276