གཡག

Tibetan

A domestic yak at Yamdrok Lake.

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *g-jak ~ g-jaŋ (“sheep, yak”).

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*ɡjak/
• Lhasa: /ja˥˩/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*ɡjak/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: ya^h
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /ja˥˩/

Noun

གཡག • (g.yag)

1. yak (domestic)

Descendants

• Armenian: յակ (yak)
• Catalan: iac
• Czech: jak
• Danish: yak
• Dutch: jak
• English: yak
• Faroese: jakkoksi
• Finnish: jakki
• French: yack, yak
• Georgian: იაკი (iaḳi)

• German: Yak, Jak
• Hebrew: יאק‎ (yak)
• Hungarian: jak
• Icelandic: jakuxi
• Ido: yako
• Interlingua: yak
• Italian: yak m
• Japanese: ヤク (yaku)
• Macedonian: јак (jak)
• Marathi: याक (yāk)

• Polish: jak m
• Portuguese: iaque
• Romanian: iac m
• Russian: як (jak)
• Slovak: jak
• Slovene: jak
• Spanish: yac, yak
• Swedish: jak
• Turkish: yak

See also

• འབྲོང ('brong)