སྡོམ

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See also: སྒོམ

Tibetan[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Bodman (1980), apud Schuessler (2007), relates this to Old Chinese 蠶 (OC *dzə̂m) "silkworm".^[1]^[2]

Pronunciation[edit]

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

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[edit]

སྡོམ • (sdom)

spider

Derived terms[edit]

སྡོམ་ཐག (sdom thag)

References[edit]

^ Bodman, Nicholas (1980), “Proto-Chinese and Sino-Tibetan: Data Towards Establishing the Nature of the Relationship”, in Frans van Coetsem and Linda R. Waugh, editor, Contributions to Historical Linguistics: Issues and Materials, Leiden, p. 58 of 34–199
^ Schuessler, Axel (2007). ABC Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. p. 175

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