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== dzo → eng ==
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=== Case I ===
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མཐུ་ → bewitchment/witchcraft, power
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Example sentences:
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{| class="wikitable"
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|-
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! Dzongkha Sentence !! English Translation
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|-
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| ཁོ་གི་'''མཐུ'''་རྐྱབ་འོང་ ||  He might do '''witchcraft'''.
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| སྨན་གྱི་'''མཐུ'''་ ||  The '''power''' of medicine.
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|}
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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"
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|-
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! Dzongkha Sentence !! English Translation
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|-
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| '''ཕྱག'''་འཚལ་གེ་ ||  Let (us) '''prostrate'''.
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|-
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| '''ཕྱག'''་ལས་གནང་||  Bestowed from (their) '''hand'''.
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|}
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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"
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|-
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! Dzongkha Sentence !! English Translation
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| ཞབས་ཁྲ་'''འཐེན'''་ནི་ || (We) will '''sing'''.
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|-
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| ཐགཔ་'''འཐེན'''་ནི་|| (We) will '''pull''' the rope.
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|}
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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.