འཐུང

Tibetan

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *N/s-tuŋ (“to drink, to suckle”).

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*ⁿtʰuŋ/
• Lhasa: /tʰuŋ˥˥/
• Batang: /tʰũ˥˥/
• Dêgê: /tʰuŋ˥˧/
• Gyaitang: /tʰã˩˧/
• Zêkog: /ntʰoŋ/
• Bla-Brang: /tʰoŋ/
• Arik: /tʰoŋ/
• Maqu: /n̥tʰoŋ/
• Mdung-Nag: /tʰoŋ/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*ⁿtʰuŋ/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: tung^f
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /tʰuŋ˥˥/
• Khams
  • (Batang) IPA^(key): /tʰũ˥˥/
  • (Dêgê) IPA^(key): /tʰuŋ˥˧/
  • (Gyaitang) IPA^(key): /tʰã˩˧/
• Amdo
  • (Zêkog) IPA^(key): /ntʰoŋ/
  • (Bla-Brang) IPA^(key): /tʰoŋ/
  • (Arik) IPA^(key): /tʰoŋ/
  • (Maqu) IPA^(key): /n̥tʰoŋ/
  • (Mdung-Nag) IPA^(key): /tʰoŋ/

Verb

འཐུང • ('thung) (nominal form འཐུང་བ)

1. (transitive or intransitive) to drink, to imbibe fluid

Conjugation

Conjugation of འཐུང

Tense/Mood	Form	Wylie
Present	འཐུང	'thung
Future	བཏུང	btung
Past	བཏུངས འཐུངས	btungs 'thungs
Imperative	ཐུངས འཐུངས	thungs 'thungs

Derived terms

• འཐུང་ཡག ('thung yag, “fountain”)