མགོ

See also: མིག

Sikkimese

Etymology

From Proto-Bodish *(m)go, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *mV-qow.

Noun

མགོ (mgo)

  1. head

Derived terms

  • མགོ་འཁོར (mgo 'khor, to cheat, to deceive)
  • མགོ་ན (mgo na, headache)
  • མགོ་འཛིན (mgo 'dzin, leader)

References

  • Norden Tshering; Pema Rinzin Takchungdarpo (2001), ལྙོ་དབྱིན་ ཤན་སྦྱར་གྱི་ ཆིག་མཇོ་ད།། [Lho dbyin shan sbyar gyi chig mjo da., Bhutia-English Dictionary]‎[1] (overall work in English and Sikkimese), Gangtok, Sikkim: Kwality Stores, page 40

Tibetan

“head”
Plain མགོ (mgo)
Honorific དབུ (dbu)

Etymology

From Proto-Bodish *(m)go, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *mV-qow.

Pronunciation


Noun

མགོ • (mgo)

  1. head

Derived terms

  • མགོ་ཀླད (mgo klad)
  • མགོ་ཁྱིའི་ལྟ་བུ (mgo khyi'i lta bu)
  • མགོ་གེམས (mgo gems)
  • མགོ་ཉོག (mgo nyog)
  • མགོ་འཐོམ (mgo 'thom)
  • མགོ་སྨྱུང (mgo smyung)
  • མགོ་ཡིག (mgo yig)
  • མཐུར་མགོ (mthur mgo)