སྐད

Dzongkha

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *m/s-k(w)a-j (“mouth; opening”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /keː˥/

Noun

སྐད (kê)

1. voice, sound, cry
2. dialect

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Tibetan

Etymology

Related to ཁ (kha, “mouth; word”) and བཀའ (bka', “word; saying; teaching”) (Zhang, 2009), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *m/s-k(w)a-j (“mouth; opening”).

Noun

“language, speech”

Plain	སྐད (skad)
Honorific	བཀའ (bka')

1. language
2. speech

Derived terms

• ཡུལ་གོར་སྐད (yul gor skad, “Uyghur”)
• ཡུལ་སྐད (yul skad, “dialect”)
• སྐད་གདངས (skad gdangs, “accent”)
• སྐད་ཅོར (skad cor, “noise”)
• སྐད་བརྒྱབ (skad brgyab, “to sing”)
• སྐད་ཡིག (skad yig)
• སྐད་རིགས (skad rigs)
• སྐད་ལ་བཅུག (skad la bcug, “to dub”)
• སྐད་སྒྱུར (skad sgyur)
• སྤྱི་སྐད (spyi skad, “lingua franca”)