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== dzo → eng == | == dzo → eng == | ||
+ | === Case I === | ||
+ | མཐུ་ → bewitchment/witchcraft, power | ||
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+ | Example sentences: | ||
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+ | {| class="wikitable" | ||
+ | |- | ||
+ | ! Dzongkha Sentence !! English Translation | ||
+ | |- | ||
+ | | ཁོ་གི་'''མཐུ'''་རྐྱབ་འོང་ || He might do '''witchcraft'''. | ||
+ | |- | ||
+ | | སྨན་གྱི་'''མཐུ'''་ || The '''power''' of medicine. | ||
+ | |} | ||
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+ | * Generalization rule: མཐུ་/black magic is usually followed by closely related words like casting(do), spell, dark magic. If a word that is closely related to this meaning is near མཐུ་, it will be realized as witchcraft. Else, by default, it would be realized as power. | ||
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+ | === Case II === | ||
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+ | ཕྱག་ → honorific of hand, prostrate | ||
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+ | Example sentences: | ||
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+ | {| class="wikitable" | ||
+ | |- | ||
+ | ! Dzongkha Sentence !! English Translation | ||
+ | |- | ||
+ | | '''ཕྱག'''་འཚལ་གེ་ || Let (us) '''prostrate'''. | ||
+ | |- | ||
+ | | '''ཕྱག'''་ལས་གནང་|| Bestowed from (their) '''hand'''. | ||
+ | |} | ||
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+ | * Generalization rule: ཕྱག་/hand belongs to the the subcategory {{tag|hn}} in {{tag|n}}, so it is only realized when a word that falls in the "honorific" category is near ཕྱག་. Else, it will be realized as ཕྱག་/prostrate. | ||
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+ | === Case III === | ||
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+ | འཐེན་ → verbal message, pull | ||
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+ | Example sentences: | ||
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+ | {| class="wikitable" | ||
+ | |- | ||
+ | ! Dzongkha Sentence !! English Translation | ||
+ | |- | ||
+ | | ཞབས་ཁྲ་'''འཐེན'''་ནི་ || (We) will '''sing'''. | ||
+ | |- | ||
+ | | ཐགཔ་'''འཐེན'''་ནི་|| (We) will '''pull''' the rope. | ||
+ | |} | ||
+ | |||
+ | * Generalization rule: འཐེན་/sing is realized if it is preceded by the noun ཞབས་ཁྲ་/song. འཐེན་/pull is realized otherwise. | ||
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+ | == Additions == | ||
+ | * All three rules are implemented. | ||
[[Category:Sp21_LexicalSelection]] [[Category: Dzongkha]] [[ Category: English]] | [[Category:Sp21_LexicalSelection]] [[Category: Dzongkha]] [[ Category: English]] |
Latest revision as of 02:30, 25 May 2021
dzo → eng
Case I
མཐུ་ → bewitchment/witchcraft, power
Example sentences:
Dzongkha Sentence | English Translation |
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ཁོ་གི་མཐུ་རྐྱབ་འོང་ | He might do witchcraft. |
སྨན་གྱི་མཐུ་ | The power of medicine. |
- Generalization rule: མཐུ་/black magic is usually followed by closely related words like casting(do), spell, dark magic. If a word that is closely related to this meaning is near མཐུ་, it will be realized as witchcraft. Else, by default, it would be realized as power.
Case II
ཕྱག་ → honorific of hand, prostrate
Example sentences:
Dzongkha Sentence | English Translation |
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ཕྱག་འཚལ་གེ་ | Let (us) prostrate. |
ཕྱག་ལས་གནང་ | Bestowed from (their) hand. |
- Generalization rule: ཕྱག་/hand belongs to the the subcategory <hn> in <n>, so it is only realized when a word that falls in the "honorific" category is near ཕྱག་. Else, it will be realized as ཕྱག་/prostrate.
Case III
འཐེན་ → verbal message, pull
Example sentences:
Dzongkha Sentence | English Translation |
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ཞབས་ཁྲ་འཐེན་ནི་ | (We) will sing. |
ཐགཔ་འཐེན་ནི་ | (We) will pull the rope. |
- Generalization rule: འཐེན་/sing is realized if it is preceded by the noun ཞབས་ཁྲ་/song. འཐེན་/pull is realized otherwise.
Additions
- All three rules are implemented.