འགྲོ

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *ɢʷrat.

འགྲོ (dro)

1. to go

• Sherpa Dictionary by Nicolas Tournadre & al., Kathmandu 2009

From Proto-Bodish *(gʷ)ra, cognate to Kurtöp ར (ra, “to come”).

འགྲོ • ('gro) (nominal form འགྲོ་བ) (intransitive)

1. to go, to walk, to proceed, to set off, to move, to depart, to migrate
2. to get, to get into, to enter
3. to find room in, to be contained in
4. to turn to, to be transformed into, to become
5. to be used for
6. to be acceptable (to the senses)

Note: the past སོང (song) is more typical of eastern dialects, whereas ཕྱིན (phyin) more of central dialects. The form སོང (song) is also the grammatical form for the evidential/testimonial mood in Standard Lhasa Tibetan, while ཕྱིན (phyin) is used in the assertive mood. The present/future form འགྲོ ('gro) is occasionally also used in the past tense in colloquial Lhasa Tibetan and the colloquial speech of the Tibetan exile community.

• འགྲོ་ས ('gro sa, “destination”)

• འོང ('ong, “to come”)