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=== Case I ===  
 
=== Case I ===  
མཐུ་ → bewitchment/black magic, power
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མཐུ་ → bewitchment/witchcraft, power
  
 
Example sentences:
 
Example sentences:
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! Dzongkha Sentence !! English Translation
 
! Dzongkha Sentence !! English Translation
 
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| ཁོ་གི་'''མཐུ'''་རྐྱབ་འོང་ ||  He might do '''black magic'''.
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| ཁོ་གི་'''མཐུ'''་རྐྱབ་འོང་ ||  He might do '''witchcraft'''.
 
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| སྨན་གྱི་'''མཐུ'''་ ||  The '''power''' of medicine.  
 
| 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, witchcraft. If a word that is closely related to this meaning is near མཐུ་, it will be realized as black magic. Else, by default it would be realized as power.
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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.
  
 
=== Case II ===  
 
=== Case II ===  
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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 within 2 cohorts of ཕྱག་. Else, it will be realized as ཕྱག་/prostrate.  
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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.
  
 
=== Case III ===  
 
=== Case III ===  
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* Generalization rule: འཐེན་/pull is realized their exists an object of the sentence and falls in the "pull-able" category. འཐེན་/sing is realized otherwise.
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* 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 ==
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* 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
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
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
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.