སྟོང

See also: སེང, སེངྒེ, and སྙིང

Balti

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-toŋ (“thousand”). Cognate to Tibetan སྟོང (stong)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /stoŋ/, [stoŋ]

Numeral

སྟོང (stong)

1. thousand

References

• Sprigg, R.K. (2002) Balti-English/English-Balti Dictionary, New York: Routledge

Tibetan

Tibetan numbers ^(edit)

←  1	←  100	1,000	10,000  →	1,000,000 (106)  →
Cardinal: སྟོང (stong)

Etymology 1

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-toŋ (“thousand”).

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*stoŋ/
• Lhasa: /toŋ˥˥/
• Batang: /tũ˥˥/
• Dêgê: /tuŋ˥˥/
• Zêkog: /rtoŋ/
• Bla-Brang: /htoŋ/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*stoŋ/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: dong^f
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /toŋ˥˥/
• Khams
  • (Batang) IPA^(key): /tũ˥˥/
  • (Dêgê) IPA^(key): /tuŋ˥˥/
• Amdo
  • (Zêkog) IPA^(key): /rtoŋ/
  • (Bla-Brang) IPA^(key): /htoŋ/

Numeral

སྟོང • (stong)

1. thousand

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*stoŋ/
• Lhasa: /toŋ˥˨/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*stoŋ/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: dong^h
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /toŋ˥˨/

Verb

སྟོང • (stong) (nominal form སྟོང་བ)

1. (intransitive) to make empty, to be empty, to become waste or desolate

Conjugation

Conjugation of སྟོང

Tense/Mood	Form	Wylie
Present	སྟོང སྟོངས	stong stongs
Future	སྟོང བསྟང	stong bstang
Past	སྟོངས བསྟངས	stongs bstangs
Imperative	སྟོངས	stongs