Tibetan edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *hwaŋ (to come (out); to enter). Cognate with Burmese ဝင် (wang, to come in; to enter), Chinese (OC *ɢʷaŋ, “to go”). Related to འོང ('ong, to come).

Pronunciation edit


Verb edit

“to come”
Plain ཡོང (yong)
Honorific ཕེབས (phebs)
High Honorific བཅར (bcar)

ཡོང (yong) (nominal form ཡོང་བ)

  1. (intransitive) to come, to arrive
  2. (intransitive) to arise, to occur
  3. (intransitive) to be able to, can

Conjugation edit