གཡག

Tibetan

A domestic yak at Yamdrok Lake.

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *g-jak ~ g-jaŋ (“sheep, yak”).

Pronunciation

Old Tibetan: /*ɡjak/
Lhasa: /ja˥˩/

Old Tibetan:
- IPA^(key): /*ɡjak/ (reconstructed)
Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan Pinyin: ya^h
- (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /ja˥˩/

Noun

གཡག • (g.yag)

yak (domestic)

Descendants

Armenian: յակ (yak)
Catalan: iac
Czech: jak
Danish: yak
Dutch: jak
English: yak
Faroese: jakkoksi
Finnish: jakki
French: yack, yak
Georgian: იაკი (iaḳi)

German: Yak, Jak
Hebrew: יאק‎ (yak)
Hungarian: jak
Icelandic: jakuxi
Ido: yako
Interlingua: yak
Italian: yak m
Japanese: ヤク (yaku)
Macedonian: јак (jak)
Marathi: याक (yāk)

Polish: jak m
Portuguese: iaque
Romanian: iac m
Russian: як (jak)
Slovak: jak
Slovene: jak
Spanish: yac, yak
Swedish: jak
Turkish: yak

See also

འབྲོང ('brong)

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