ཡོད

Dzongkha

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jøː˩/

Verb

ཡོད (yod)

1. to be (attributive, indirect (known) evidential)
2. to have

Kurtöp

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *lut. Cognates include Dzongkha ལུད (lud) and Tibetan ལུད (lud).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [jòt̪]

Noun

ཡོད (yot)

1. manure, fertiliser

References

• G. Hyslop, K. Tshering, K. Lhendrup, P. Chhophyel (2016) Kurtöp-English-Dzongkha dictionary (draft), page 196
• Gwendolyn Hyslop (2017) A grammar of Kurtöp, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 84

Tibetan

Etymology

Possibly cognate with Chinese 有 (OC *ɢʷɯʔ).

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*jot/
• Lhasa: /jøː˩˧˨/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*jot/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: yoe^w
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /jøː˩˧˨/

Verb

ཡོད • (yod) (nominal form ཡོད་པ)

1. (intransitive) to be, to exist, to have

Conjugation

Conjugation of ཡོད

Tense/Mood	Form	Wylie
Present	ཡོད	yod
Future	ཡོད	yod
Past	ཡོད	yod
Imperative	ཡོད	yod