གནང

Tibetan

Etymology

From Proto-Tibeto-Burman *g/s-naŋ (“give / command / concede”). Cognate with 讓 (OC *njaŋs, “to concede; to allow”), 攘 (OC *njaŋ, *njaŋʔ, *njaŋs, “to remove; to steal”), 禳 (OC *njaŋ, “to expel; to sacrifice to expel disasters”), Burmese နှင်း (hnang:, “to confer; to grant”), Burmese နှင် (hnang, “to drive away; to expel”) (Schuessler, 2007).

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*gnaŋ/
• Lhasa: /naŋ˥˥/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*gnaŋ/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: nang^f
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /naŋ˥˥/

Verb

གནང • (gnang) (nominal form གནང་བ)

1. (honorific) give, grant