སྒོ

སྒོ

See also: སྒ

Tibetan

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *m/s-k(w)a-j (“mouth; opening; spread; door; face; jaw”). Cognate with Chinese 戶 (OC *ɡʷaːʔ, “door”).

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*zɡo/
• Lhasa: /ko˩˧/
• Batang: /gᴜ˥˧/
• Dêgê: /go˧˩/
• Zêkog: /rgo/
• Bla-Brang: /hgo/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*zɡo/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan Pinyin: go^v
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /ko˩˧/
• Khams
  • (Batang) IPA^(key): /gᴜ˥˧/
  • (Dêgê) IPA^(key): /go˧˩/
• Amdo
  • (Zêkog) IPA^(key): /rgo/
  • (Bla-Brang) IPA^(key): /hgo/

Noun

སྒོ • (sgo)

1. door

Derived terms

• སྒེའུ (sge'u)
• སྒོ་ལྕགས (sgo lcags)
• རྒྱལ་སྒོ (rgyal sgo, “gate”)
• སྒོའི་ལག་འཇུ (sgo'i lag 'ju, “doorknob”)
• སྒོའི་ཐེམ (sgo'i them, “doorstep”)