སྡོམ

See also: སྒོམ

Tibetan

Etymology

Bodman (1980), apud Schuessler (2007), relates this to Old Chinese 蠶 (OC *dzə̂m) "silkworm". STEDT derives the Chinese, though not the Tibetan, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *tip ~ *tu(p/m) (“to wrap up”), whence Burmese ထုပ် (htup, “to wrap, bundle”). If the Tibetan is related, the spider could be conceived of as a "bug which wraps up its prey".

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*zdom/
• Lhasa: /tom˩˨/
• Zêkog: /rdom/
• Bla-Brang: /hdom/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*zdom/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: dom^v
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /tom˩˨/
• Amdo
  • (Zêkog) IPA^(key): /rdom/
  • (Bla-Brang) IPA^(key): /hdom/

Noun

སྡོམ • (sdom)

1. spider

Derived terms

• སྡོམ་ཐག (sdom thag)