སྐྱོང

Tibetan

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*skʲoŋ/
• Lhasa: /koŋ˥˨/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*skʲoŋ/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: gong^h
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /koŋ˥˨/

Verb

སྐྱོང • (skyong) (nominal form སྐྱོང་བ)

1. (transitive) to keep, to maintain, to sustain
2. (transitive) to guard, to nurture
3. (transitive) to rule, to govern

Conjugation

Conjugation of སྐྱོང

Tense/Mood	Form	Wylie
Present	སྐྱོང	skyong
Future	བསྐྱང	bskyang
Past	བསྐྱངས བསྐྱོངས	bskyangs bskyongs
Imperative	སྐྱོངས སྐྱོང	skyongs skyong

Etymology 2

Verb

སྐྱོང • (skyong) (nominal form སྐྱོང་བ)

1. (intransitive) to go on a long road

Conjugation

Conjugation of སྐྱོང

Tense/Mood	Form	Wylie
Present	སྐྱོང	skyong
Future	སྐྱོང	skyong
Past	སྐྱོང	skyong