མོ
Tibetan
Etymology
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *mow (“woman; feminine suffix”). Compare Chinese 母 (OC *mɯʔ).
Pronunciation
- Old Tibetan: /*mo/
- Lhasa: /mo˩˧/
- Old Tibetan:
- IPA(key): /*mo/ (reconstructed)
- Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan Pinyin: mov
- (Lhasa) IPA(key): /mo˩˧/
Noun
མོ • (mo)
Pronoun
མོ • (mo)
- she (3rd-person singular pronoun, familiar)
See also
Tibetan personal pronouns
| Singular | Dual | Plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st person | ང (nga) | ང་གཉིས (nga gnyis) | ང་ཚོ (nga tsho) | |
| 2nd person | Ordinary | རང (rang) | རང་གཉིས (rang gnyis) | རང་ཚོ (rang tsho) |
| Honorific | ཁྱེད་རང (khyed rang) | ཁྱེད་རང་གཉིས (khyed rang gnyis) | ཁྱེད་རང་ཚོ (khyed rang tsho) | |
| Pejorative | ཁྱོད (khyod) | ཁྱོད་གཉིས (khyod gnyis) | ཁྱོད་ཚོ (khyod tsho) | |
| 3rd person | Ordinary | ཁོང (khong) | ཁོང་གཉིས (khong gnyis) | ཁོང་ཚོ (khong tsho) |
| Familiar (male) | ཁོ་རང (kho rang), ཁོ (kho) |
ཁོ་རང་གཉིས (kho rang gnyis), ཁོ་གཉིས (kho gnyis) |
ཁོ་རང་ཚོ (kho rang tsho), ཁོ་ཚོ (kho tsho) | |
| Familiar (female) | མོ་རང (mo rang), མོ (mo) |
མོ་རང་གཉིས (mo rang gnyis), མོ་གཉིས (mo gnyis) |
མོ་རང་ཚོ (mo rang tsho), མོ་ཚོ (mo tsho) |
Derived terms
- གནས་མོ (gnas mo, “landlady”)
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