ཡོང

Tibetan

Etymology

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


Verb

“to come”
Plain ཡོང (yong)
Honorific ཕེབས (phebs)
Respectful 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

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