སྐྱོང

Tibetan

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

Old Tibetan: /*skʲoŋ/
Lhasa: /koŋ˥˨/

Old Tibetan:
- IPA^(key): /*skʲoŋ/ (reconstructed)
Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan pinyin: gong^h
- (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /koŋ˥˨/

Verb

སྐྱོང • (skyong) (nominal form སྐྱོང་བ)

(transitive) to keep, to maintain, to sustain
(transitive) to guard, to nurture
(transitive) to rule, to govern

Conjugation

Conjugation of **སྐྱོང** (skyong)
present	སྐྱོང (skyong)
future	བསྐྱང (bskyang)
past	བསྐྱངས (bskyangs) བསྐྱོངས (bskyongs)
imperative	སྐྱོངས (skyongs) སྐྱོང (skyong)

Etymology 2

Verb

སྐྱོང • (skyong) (nominal form སྐྱོང་བ)

(intransitive) to go on a long road

Conjugation

Conjugation of **སྐྱོང** (skyong)
present	སྐྱོང (skyong)
future	སྐྱོང (skyong)
past	སྐྱོང (skyong)