སྐད

Dzongkha

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *m/s-k(w)a-j (“mouth; opening”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /keː˥/

Noun

སྐད (kê)

voice, sound, cry
dialect

Tibetan

Etymology

Related to ཁ (kha, “mouth; word”) and བཀའ (bka', “word; saying; teaching”) (Zhang, 2009), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *m/s-k(w)a-j (“mouth; opening”).

Pronunciation

Old Tibetan: /*skat/
Lhasa: /kɛː˥˩/

Old Tibetan:
- IPA^(key): /*skat/ (reconstructed)
Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan pinyin: gae^h
- (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /kɛː˥˩/

Noun

“language, speech”
Plain	སྐད (skad)
Honorific	བཀའ (bka')

སྐད • (skad)

Derived terms

ཡུལ་གོར་སྐད (yul gor skad, “Uyghur”)
ཡུལ་སྐད (yul skad, “dialect”)
སྐད་གདངས (skad gdangs, “accent”)
སྐད་ཅོར (skad cor, “noise”)
སྐད་བརྒྱབ (skad brgyab, “to sing”)
སྐད་ཡིག (skad yig)
སྐད་རིགས (skad rigs)
སྐད་ལ་བཅུག (skad la bcug, “to dub”)
སྐད་སྒྱུར (skad sgyur)
སྤྱི་སྐད (spyi skad, “lingua franca”)

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