ཡོང

Tibetan

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*joŋ/
• Lhasa: /joŋ˩˨/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*joŋ/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: yong^v
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /joŋ˩˨/

Verb

“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

Conjugation of ཡོང

Tense/Mood	Form	Wylie
Present	ཡོང	yong
Future	ཡོང	yong
Past	ཡོང	yong
Imperative	ཡོང	yong