ཕག

See also: ཕྱག

Kurtöp

ཕག​་

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *pʷak. Cognates include Tibetan ཕག (phag), Dzongkha ཕགཔ (phgap) and Sherpa བག་པ (bag pa).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pʰə́k/, /pʰɑ́ː/

Noun

ཕག (phag)

1. pig

References

• G. Hyslop, K. Tshering, K. Lhendrup, P. Chhophyel (2016) Kurtöp-English-Dzongkha dictionary (draft), page 135
• Gwendolyn Hyslop (2017) A grammar of Kurtöp, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 31

Tibetan

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *pʷak (“pig”).

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*pʰak/
• Lhasa: /pʰa˥˨/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*pʰak/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: pa^h
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /pʰa˥˨/

Noun

ཕག • (phag)

1. pig

Derived terms

• ཕག་པ (phag pa, “pig”)