ཇོ་ཇོ
Tibetan edit
Etymology edit
Believed to have originally been a general honorific; compare ཇོ་མོ (jo mo, “mistress”) and the semantic development of ཐུ་བོ (thu bo).[1]
Pronunciation edit
- Old Tibetan: /*d͡ʑo.d͡ʑo/
- Lhasa: /t͡ɕo˥˥.t͡ɕo˥˨/
- Old Tibetan:
- Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan pinyin: jof-joh
- (Lhasa) IPA(key): /t͡ɕo˥˥.t͡ɕo˥˨/
Noun edit
ཇོ་ཇོ • (jo jo)
Coordinate terms edit
- མིང་པོ (ming po)
References edit
- ^ Paul K. Benedict (1942) “Tibetan and Chinese Kinship Terms”, in Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, volume 6, number 3/4, Harvard-Yenching Institute, pages 313-337
- “ཇོ་ཇོ” in The Tibetan Living Dictionary, Mandala Collections, 2021.