མེ་ཏོག

See also: མུ་ཏིག

Tibetan

Etymology

From earlier མེན་ཏོག (men tog). The reason this word lost the -n in Written Tibetan is unknown.

The men in the Old Tibetan form may be compared with འཕྲ་མེན ('phra men, “gilded silver”), and the tog part is from ཐོག (thog, “roof < *tip, end?”) (Hill, 2007).

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*me.tok/
• Lhasa: /me˩˨.to˥˨/
• Batang: /me˩˧.toʔ˥˩/
• Bla-Brang: /me.toχ/
• Arik: /me.tʰok/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*me.tok/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: me^v-do^h
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /me˩˨.to˥˨/
• Khams
  • (Batang) IPA^(key): /me˩˧.toʔ˥˩/
• Amdo
  • (Bla-Brang) IPA^(key): /me.toχ/
  • (Arik) IPA^(key): /me.tʰok/

Noun

མེ་ཏོག • (me tog)

1. flower, blossom
2. (dialectal) smallpox

Descendants

• → Wutunhua: maidok