རྒོད

Tibetan

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *g-la(ŋ/k) (“falcon, vulture, eagle, kite, hawk, bird of prey”), which is likely a loan from Proto-Mon-Khmer *laŋ ~ *laaŋ ~ *laiŋ (“large raptor”). Compare Mon လနေၚ် (“kite”), Khmer ខ្លែង (khlaeng, “kite”). (Benedict, 1972; STEDT).

Cognate to Jingpho gəlaŋ (“eagle, kite, hawk”), Jingpho lang (“bird of the falcon family”), Mianchi Southern Qiang là (“kite, hawk”) and Mianchi Southern Qiang lá (“eagle, vulture”), Burmese လင်းတ (lang:ta., “vulture”). Possibly connected to Chinese 鷹 / 鹰 (yīng, “eagle”) (Benedict, 1990; Schuessler, 2007).

Doublet of གླག (glag).

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*rɡot/
• Lhasa: /køː˩˧˨/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*rɡot/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: goe^w
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /køː˩˧˨/

Noun

རྒོད • (rgod)

1. vulture
2. wildness
3. excitement, elation

Synonyms

• བྱ་རྒོད (bya rgod)

Derived terms

• རྒོད་པ (rgod pa)
• རྒོད་པོ (rgod po)