བོད
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Dzongkha
Etymology
From Classical Tibetan བོད (bod, “Tibet”).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
བོད (bod)
- Tibet (a geographic region in Central Asia, the homeland of the Tibetan people)
- Tibet (an autonomous region of China)
Kurtöp
Pronunciation
Pronoun
བོད (bot)
Declension
| 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| exclusive | inclusive | ||||
| singular | absolutive | ངད (ngat) | ཝིད (wit) | ཁིད (khit) | |
| ergative | ངའི (ngai) | ཝཱི (wî) | 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
Etymology
According to Bialek, originally the name of a people inhabiting modern Nyêmo County. Possibly related to བོན (bon, “to express, to mutter, etc.”).
Pronunciation
- Old Tibetan: /*bot/
- Lhasa: /pʰøː˩˧˨/
- Old Tibetan:
- Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan pinyin: poew
- (Lhasa) IPA(key): /pʰøː˩˧˨/
Proper noun
བོད • (bod)
- Tibet (a geographic region in Central Asia, the homeland of the Tibetan people)
- Tibet (an autonomous region of China)
Derived terms
Descendants
- Dzongkha: བོད (bod)
- →? Ancient Greek: Βαι̃ται (Baĩtai), Βα̃ται (Bãtai), Βαεται (Baetai)
- → Latin: Baetae
- →⇒? Middle Chinese: 發羌 (MC pjot khjang); 附國 (MC bjuH kwok)
- →? Prakrit: *𑀪𑁄𑀝𑁆𑀝 (*bhŏṭṭa), *𑀪𑁄𑀝 (*bhoṭa)
See also
- དབུས་གཙང (dbus gtsang)
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Joanna Bialek (October 2021) “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
- ^ Marcelle Lalou (1953) “Tibétain ancien Bod/Bon”, in Journal Asiatique, volume 241, pages 275–276