གཡག

Tibetan

A domestic yak at Yamdrok Lake.

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *g-jak ~ g-jaŋ (“sheep, yak”).

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*ɡjak/
• Lhasa: /ja˥˨/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*ɡjak/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: ya^h
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /ja˥˨/

Noun

གཡག • (g.yag)

1. yak (domestic)

Coordinate terms

• འབྲི ('bri, “female yak”)

Descendants

• → Armenian: յակ (yak)
• → Catalan: iac
• → Czech: jak
• → Danish: yak
• → Dutch: jak
• → English: yak
• → Faroese: jakkoksi
• → Finnish: jakki
• → French: yack, yak
• → Georgian: იაკი (iaḳi)
• → German: Yak, Jak
• → Hebrew: יאק (yak)
• → Hungarian: jak
• → Icelandic: jakuxi
• → Ido: yako
• → Interlingua: yak
• → Italian: yak m
• → Japanese: ヤク (yaku)
• → Macedonian: јак (jak)
• → Marathi: याक (yāk)
• → Norwegian Bokmål: jak
• → Polish: jak m
• → Portuguese: iaque
• → Romanian: iac m
• → Russian: як (jak)
• → Slovak: jak
• → Slovene: jak
• → Spanish: yac, yak
• → Swedish: jak
• → Turkish: yak

See also

• འབྲོང ('brong, “yak (wild)”)