ཡོང
Tibetan
Etymology
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *hwaŋ (“to come (out); to enter”). Cognate with Burmese ဝင် (wang, “to come in; to enter”), Chinese 往 (OC *ɢʷaŋ, “to go”). Related to འོང ('ong, “to come”).
Pronunciation
Verb
| Plain | ཡོང (yong) |
|---|---|
| Honorific | ཕེབས (phebs) |
| High Honorific | བཅར (bcar) |
ཡོང • (yong) (nominal form ཡོང་བ)
- (intransitive) to come, to arrive
- (intransitive) to arise, to occur
- (intransitive) to be able to, can
Conjugation
Conjugation of ཡོང
| Tense/Mood | Form | Wylie |
|---|---|---|
| Present | ཡོང | yong |
| Future | ཡོང | yong |
| Past | ཡོང | yong |
| Imperative | ཡོང | yong |