ཐུག

Kurtöp

Etymology

Borrowed from Tibetan ཐུགས (thugs).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [t̪ʰúk], [t̪ʰúː]

Noun

ཐུག (thuk)

1. (honorific) heart

Synonyms

• (low register) ནེ́ང ('neng)

References

• G. Hyslop, K. Tshering, K. Lhendrup, P. Chhophyel (2016) Kurtöp-English-Dzongkha dictionary (draft), page 90
• Gwendolyn Hyslop (2017) A grammar of Kurtöp, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 89

Tibetan

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *tuk ~ (t/d)wa(k/ŋ) (“to meet”). Related to གཏུག (gtug, “to reach; to meet with”).

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*tʰuk/
• Lhasa: /tʰu˥˨/
• Dêgê: /tʰuʔ˥˧/
• Zêkog: /tʰək/
• Bla-Brang: /tʰək/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*tʰuk/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: tu^h
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /tʰu˥˨/
• Khams
  • (Dêgê) IPA^(key): /tʰuʔ˥˧/
• Amdo
  • (Zêkog) IPA^(key): /tʰək/
  • (Bla-Brang) IPA^(key): /tʰək/

Verb

ཐུག • (thug) (nominal form ཐུག་པ)

1. (intransitive) to reach, to arrive at, to come to
2. (intransitive) to interview, to encounter, to meet

Conjugation

Conjugation of ཐུག

Tense/Mood	Form	Wylie
Present	ཐུག འཐུག	thug 'thug
Future	ཐུག	thug
Past	ཐུག	thug
Imperative	ཐུག	thug

See also

• མཇལ (mjal)

Verb

ཐུག • (thug) (nominal form ཐུག་པ)

1. (transitive, colloquial) to touch, to hit, to strike

Conjugation

Conjugation of ཐུག

Tense/Mood	Form	Wylie
Present	ཐུག	thug
Future	ཐུག	thug
Past	ཐུག	thug
Imperative	ཐུག	thug