སྐད

Dzongkha

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *m/s-k(w)a-j (“mouth; opening”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /keː˥/

Noun

སྐད (skad)

1. voice, sound, cry
2. dialect

Tibetan

Etymology

Related to ཁ (kha, “mouth; word”) and བཀའ (bka', “word; saying; teaching”) (Zhang, 2009), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *m/s-k(w)a-j (“mouth; opening”).

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*skat/
• Lhasa: /kɛː˥˨/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*skat/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: gae^h
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /kɛː˥˨/

Noun

“language, speech”

Plain	སྐད (skad)
Honorific	བཀའ (bka')

སྐད • (skad)

1. language
2. speech

Declension

Declension of སྐད (regular stem) 

absolutive	སྐད skad
genitive	སྐད་ཀྱི skad kyi
agentive	སྐད་ཀྱིས skad kyis
dative	སྐད་ལ skad la
locative	སྐད་ན skad na
terminative	སྐད་དུ skad du
ablative	སྐད་ལས skad las
elative	སྐད་ནས skad nas
associative	སྐད་དང skad dang
comparative	སྐད་པས skad pas

Derived terms

• ཡུལ་གོར་སྐད (yul gor skad, “Uyghur language”)
• རྒྱ་སྐད (rgya skad, “Chinese language, Hindi”)
• སྐད་སྒྱུར (skad sgyur, “interpreter; translator”)
• ཡུལ་སྐད (yul skad, “dialect”)
• སྐད་གདངས (skad gdangs, “accent”)
• སྐད་ཅོར (skad cor, “noise”)
• སྐད་བརྒྱབ (skad brgyab, “to sing”)
• སྐད་ཡིག (skad yig)
• སྐད་རིགས (skad rigs)
• སྐད་ལ་བཅུག (skad la bcug, “to dub”)
• སྐད་སྒྱུར (skad sgyur)
• སྤྱི་སྐད (spyi skad, “lingua franca”)

References

• “སྐད” in The Tibetan Living Dictionary, Mandala Collections, 2021.
• “སྐད” in Tibetan-English Dictionary.