མེ་ཏོག

See also: མུ་ཏིག

Tibetan

Etymology

From earlier མེན་ཏོག (men tog). The reason this word lost the -n in Written Tibetan is unknown.

The men in the Old Tibetan form may be compared with འཕྲ་མེན ('phra men, “gilded silver”), and the tog part is from ཐོག (thog, “roof < *tip, end?”) (Hill, 2007).

Pronunciation

Old Tibetan: /*me.tok/
Lhasa: /me˩˨.to˥˨/
Batang: /me˩˧.toʔ˥˩/
Bla-Brang: /me.toχ/
Arik: /me.tʰok/

Old Tibetan:
- IPA^(key): /*me.tok/ (reconstructed)
Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan pinyin: me^v-do^h
- (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /me˩˨.to˥˨/
Khams
- (Batang) IPA^(key): /me˩˧.toʔ˥˩/
Amdo
- (Bla-Brang) IPA^(key): /me.toχ/
- (Arik) IPA^(key): /me.tʰok/

Noun

མེ་ཏོག • (me tog)

flower, blossom
(dialectal) smallpox

Descendants

→ Wutunhua: maidok

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