སྒོང་ང

Tibetan

Etymology

སྒོང (sgong, “egg”) (from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s/r-gwa-ŋ (“egg; testicle”)) + ང (nga) (from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-ŋa (“egg; hatch”)).

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*zɡoŋ.ŋa/
• Lhasa: /koŋ˩˨.ŋa˥˥/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*zɡoŋ.ŋa/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: gong^v-nga^f
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /koŋ˩˨.ŋa˥˥/

Noun

སྒོང་ང • (sgong nga)

1. egg

Derived terms

• སྒོང་ཆུ (sgong chu)

References

• “སྒོང་ང” in The Tibetan Living Dictionary, Mandala Collections, 2021.