བོད

See also: པོད, བདེ, and པད

Dzongkha

Etymology

From Classical Tibetan བོད (bod, “Tibet”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pʰøː˩/

Proper noun

བོད (bod)

1. Tibet (a geographic region in Central Asia, the homeland of the Tibetan people)
2. Tibet (an autonomous region of China)

Kurtöp

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [bòt̪]

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 (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˩˧˨/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*bot/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: poe^w
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /pʰøː˩˧˨/

Proper noun

བོད • (bod)

1. Tibet (a geographic region in Central Asia, the homeland of the Tibetan people)
2. Tibet (an autonomous region of China)

Derived terms

• བོད་སྐད (bod skad)
• བོད་ཆས (bod chas)
• བོད་ཆེན་པོ (bod chen po)
• བོད་ཇ (bod ja)
• བོད་ལྗོངས (bod ljongs)
• བོད་པ (bod pa)
• བོད་སྨན (bod sman)
• བོད་ཡིག (bod yig)
• བོད་ཡུལ (bod yul)
• བོད་རང་སྐྱོང་ལྗོངས (bod rang skyong ljongs)
• བོད་རིགས (bod rigs)

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)
  • Assamese: ভোট (bhüt)
  • Bengali: ভোট (bhōṭ)
  • Hindi: भोट (bhoṭ)
  • Nepali: भोट (bhoṭ)
  • Odia: ଭୋଟ (bhoṭa)
  • → Sanskrit: भौट्ट (bhauṭṭa), भोट (bhoṭa)
  • ⇒ Prakrit: 𑀪𑁄𑀝𑁆𑀝𑀁𑀢 (bhŏṭṭaṃta)

See also

• དབུས་གཙང (dbus gtsang)