འཐུང

Tibetan

Etymology

From Proto-Bodish *(')tʰuŋ, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *N-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

Conjugation

Conjugation of འཐུང ('thung)

present	འཐུང ('thung)
future	བཏུང (btung)
past	བཏུངས (btungs) འཐུངས ('thungs)
imperative	ཐུངས (thungs) འཐུངས ('thungs)

Derived terms

• འཐུང་ཡག ('thung yag, “fountain”)